Tag Archives: Early Anthropocene

“Paleolithic population growth pulses evidenced by small animal exploitation”

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CITATION:
M. Stiner et al. 1999. Science. 283:190-194.
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Variations in small game hunting along the northern and eastern rims of the Mediterranean Sea and results from predator-prey simulation modeling indicate that human population densities Continue reading →

“Archaeology of the Anthropocene in the Yellow River region, China, 8000−2000 cal. BP”

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Yijie Zhuang and Tristram R Kidder. 2014. The Holocene, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 1602 –1623.
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Although archaeological analysis emphasizes the importance of climatic events as a driver of historical processes, we use a variety of environmental and archaeological data to show that Continue reading →