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Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic? by Ruddiman, W. F., Fuller, D. Q., Kutzbach, J. E., Tzedakis, P. C., Kaplan, J. O., Ellis, E. C., Vavrus, S. J., Roberts, C. N., Fyfe, R., He, F., Lemmen, C., Woodbridge, J.

“…For more than a decade, scientists have argued about the warmth of the current interglaciation. Was the warmth of the preindustrial late Holocene natural in…”
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Biomolecular characterization of 3500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balms from the Valley of the Kings by Huber, B., Hammann, S., Loeben, C. E., Jha, D. K., Vassão, D. G., Larsen, T., Spengler, R. N., Fuller, D. Q., Roberts, P., Devièse, T., Boivin, N.

“…Ancient Egyptian mummification was practiced for nearly 4000 years as a key feature of some of the most complex mortuary practices documented in the…”
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Intersections, Networks and the Genesis of Social Complexity on the Nyali Coast of East Africa by Shipton, C., Helm, R., Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Austin, P., Fuller, D. Q.

“…This paper examines intersections between different societies occupying the Nyali Coast region of southern Kenya from the late first millennium AD to the…”
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Contrasting Patterns in Crop Domestication and Domestication Rates: Recent Archaeobotanical Insights from the Old World by Fuller, Dorian Q

“…BACKGROUND: Archaeobotany, the study of plant remains from sites of ancient human activity, provides data for studying the initial evolution of domesticated…”
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Zebu Cattle Are an Exclusive Legacy of the South Asia Neolithic by Chen, Shanyuan, Lin, Bang-Zhong, Baig, Mumtaz, Mitra, Bikash, Lopes, Ricardo J., Santos, António M., Magee, David A., Azevedo, Marisa, Tarroso, Pedro, Sasazaki, Shinji, Ostrowski, Stephane, Mahgoub, Osman, Chaudhuri, Tapas K., Zhang, Ya-ping, Costa, Vânia, Royo, Luis J., Goyache, Félix, Luikart, Gordon, Boivin, Nicole, Fuller, Dorian Q., Mannen, Hideyuki, Bradley, Daniel G., Beja-Pereira, Albano

“…Animal domestication was a major step forward in human prehistory, contributing to the emergence of more complex societies. At the time of the Neolithic…”
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Admixture analysis of South Asian cattle by Kumar, P, Freeman, A.R, Loftus, R.T, Gaillard, C, Fuller, D.Q, Bradley, D.G

“…We present population genetic analysis of microsatellite variation in seven Bos indicus cattle breeds from a variety of locations in South Asia. This is the…”
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Neoglacial climate anomalies and the Harappan metamorphosis by Giosan, Liviu, Orsi, William D., Coolen, Marco, Wuchter, Cornelia, Dunlea, Ann G., Thirumalai, Kaustubh, Munoz, Samuel E., Clift, Peter D., Donnelly, Jeffrey P., Galy, Valier, Fuller, Dorian Q.

“…Climate exerted constraints on the growth and decline of past human societies but our knowledge of temporal and spatial climatic patterns is often too…”
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Pearl millet and iron in the West African Sahel: Archaeobotanical investigation at Tongo Maaré Diabal, Mali by Champion, L., Gestrich, N., MacDonald, K., Nieblas-Ramirez, L., Fuller, D.Q.

“…•Inhabitants at the site of TMD (c. 500–1150) relied almost exclusively on pearl millet as a staple crop, though other cultigens were well established in the…”
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Anthropogenic origin of siliceous scoria droplets from Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites in northern Syria by Thy, P., Willcox, G., Barfod, G.H., Fuller, D.Q.

“…Siliceous scoria droplets, measuring from 1 to 10 mm, from one late Pleistocene and four early Holocene archaeological sites in northern Syria are compared to…”
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People of the ancient rainforest: Late Pleistocene foragers at the Batadomba-lena rockshelter, Sri Lanka by Perera, Nimal, Kourampas, Nikos, Simpson, Ian A., Deraniyagala, Siran U., Bulbeck, David, Kamminga, Johan, Perera, Jude, Fuller, Dorian Q., Szabó, Katherine, Oliveira, Nuno V.

“…Batadomba-lena, a rockshelter in the rainforest of southwestern Sri Lanka, has yielded some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in South Asia. H. sapiens…”
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Short communication: Massive erosion in monsoonal central India linked to late Holocene land cover degradation by Giosan, Liviu, Ponton, Camilo, Usman, Muhammed, Blusztajn, Jerzy, Fuller, Dorian Q, Galy, Valier, Haghipour, Negar, Johnson, Joel E, McIntyre, Cameron, Wacker, Lukas, Eglinton, Timothy I

“…Soil erosion plays a crucial role in transferring sediment and carbon from land to sea, yet little is known about the rhythm and rates of soil erosion prior to…”
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Investigating crop processing using phytolith analysis: the example of rice and millets by Harvey, Emma L., Fuller, Dorian Q

“…The application of crop processing models to macro-botanical assemblages has traditionally been used to interpret past husbandry practices and organisation of…”
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Ceramics, seeds and culinary change in prehistoric India by Fuller, Dorian Q

“…Cuisine, argues the author, is like language – it can be adopted, adapted or modified through time. The evidence from actual words for food is also used,…”
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Harappan seeds and agriculture: some considerations by Fuller, Dorian Q.

“…In opposition to Weber's suggestion, 'Antiquity' 1999, of an increase in foddering and intensive land use around the sites of Harappa and Rojdi in the Indus…”
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Systematics and Leaf Architecture of the Gunneraceae by Fuller, Dorian Q, Hickey, Leo J

“…Cladistic and phenetic analyses of leaf and other morphological characters of Gunnera strongly support monophyly of the genus, with the Saxifragaceae s.str. as…”
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