Search Results - "Robinson, Erick"
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Agriculture, population growth, and statistical analysis of the radiocarbon record
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-01-2016)“…The human population has grown significantly since the onset of the Holocene about 12,000 y ago. Despite decades of research, the factors determining…”
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Impacts of palaeoclimate change 60 000–8000 years ago on humans and their environments in Europe: Integrating palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data
Published in Quaternary international (18-08-2015)“…Humans respond in a variety of ways to climate and environmental change. They may adapt, migrate, evolve new technologies, or experience breakdowns in their…”
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Wetland landscape dynamics, Swifterbant land use systems, and the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in the southern North Sea basin
Published in Quaternary international (18-08-2015)“…Over the last decade, excavations in the lower Scheldt river basin (NW Belgium) have identified the first presence of the transitional Mesolithic–Neolithic…”
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p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates
Published in Scientific data (27-01-2022)“…Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent…”
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The 8.2 ka BP Holocene climate change event and human population resilience in northwest Atlantic Europe
Published in Quaternary international (26-01-2018)“…The 8.2 ka BP event may represent the largest, most abrupt Holocene climate event. This paper examines the impact of this event on human activity in the middle…”
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Preliminary structural and chemical study of two quartzite varieties from the same geological formation: a first step in the sourcing of quartzites utilized during the Mesolithic in northwest Europe
Published in Geologica Belgica (01-01-2013)“…Wommersom and Tienen quartzite are found as varieties of lithified arenite banks within the Cenozoic Tienen Formation. These macroscopically distinct varieties…”
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Cultural and palaeoenvironmental changes in late glacial to middle Holocene Europe: Gradual or sudden?
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Population density and size facilitate interactive capacity and the rise of the state
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (18-01-2021)“…Radiocarbon summed probability distribution (SPD) methods promise to illuminate the role of demography in shaping prehistoric social processes, but theories…”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of prehistoric human population growth: Radiocarbon ‘dates as data’ and population ecology models
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-01-2019)“…Archaeologists now routinely use summed radiocarbon dates as a measure of past population size, yet few have coupled these measures to theoretical expectations…”
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Human resilience to Lateglacial climate and environmental change in the Scheldt basin (NW Belgium)
Published in Quaternary international (15-01-2017)“…Recent palaeoenvironmental analyses in the Scheldt basin in NW Belgium have identified significant hydrological and vegetation changes between Greenland…”
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The global ecology of human population density and interpreting changes in paleo-population density
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-08-2020)“…Explaining variation in human population density constitutes a basic research problem in human ecology and archaeological science. To contribute to this basic…”
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14C dates as demographic proxies in Neolithisation models of northwestern Europe: a critical assessment using Belgium and northeast France as a case-study
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-12-2014)“…This paper critically assesses the use of radiocarbon dates as demographic proxies for population dynamics during the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in…”
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Dendrochronological dates confirm a Late Prehistoric population decline in the American Southwest derived from radiocarbon dates
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (18-01-2021)“…The northern American Southwest provides one of the most well-documented cases of human population growth and decline in the world. The geographic extent of…”
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The long-term expansion and recession of human populations
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (19-03-2024)“…Over the last 12,000 y, human populations have expanded and transformed critical earth systems. Yet, a key unresolved question in the environmental and social…”
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Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations
Published in Nature (London) (23-05-2024)“…The record of past human adaptations provides crucial lessons for guiding responses to crises in the future 1 – 3 . To date, there have been no systematic…”
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Multidecadal Climate Variability and the Florescence of Fremont Societies in Eastern Utah
Published in American antiquity (01-01-2020)“…Fremont societies of the Uinta Basin incorporated domesticates into a foraging lifeway over a 1,000-year period from AD 300 to 1300. Fremont research provides…”
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A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records
Published in Holocene (Sevenoaks) (01-09-2020)“…Questions regarding population stability among animals and plants are fundamental to population ecology, yet this has not been a topic studied by archeologists…”
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Cultural Landscapes and Neolithisation Processes: Outline of a model for the Scheldt basin (Belgium)
Published in Internet archaeology (01-12-2007)“…Recent research has indicated the continuation of a hunting-fishing-gathering way of life in the lower Scheldt basin (Belgium) for over a millennium after the…”
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