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10,000 years of human predation and size changes in the owl limpet (Lottia gigantea) on San Miguel Island, California

A Bayesian AMS 14C chronology of the Classic Maya Center of Uxbenká, Belize

scholarly article by Brendan J. Culleton et al published May 2012 in Journal of Archaeological Science

A Land Impacted? The Younger Dryas Boundary Event in California

A Middle Archaic Archaeological Site on the West Coast of Mexico

scholarly article by Barbar Voorhies published in June 2002

A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

A genetic history of the pre-contact Caribbean

scholarly article

A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia

scholarly article

A late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Agua Caliente, southern Belize, linked to regional climate variability and cultural change at the Maya polity of Uxbenká

scientific article published in 2014

A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the Huanchaquito-Las Llamas site, Moche Valley, Peru

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

A trans-Holocene archaeological record of Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) on the California coast

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in April 2009

AMS 14C Dating of Preclassic to Classic Period Household Construction in the Ancient Maya Community of Cahal Pech, Belize

scholarly article by Claire E Ebert et al published 11 January 2016 in Radiocarbon

Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since ad 1550

Alpine archaeology of Alta Toquima and the Mt. Jefferson Tablelands (Nevada) : the archaeology of Monitor Valley, contribution 4.

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

An Archaeological and Paleontological Chronology for Daisy Cave (CA-SMI-261), San Miguel Island, California

scientific article published in 1996

Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

scientific article published on 23 February 2022

Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

scientific article published in 2022

Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 30 May 2019

Ancient DNA reveals five streams of migration into Micronesia and matrilocality in early Pacific seafarers

scientific article published on 30 June 2022

Ancient DNA reveals monozygotic newborn twins from the Upper Palaeolithic

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Ancient genomes in South Patagonia reveal population movements associated with technological shifts and geography

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Archaeogenomic evidence from the southwestern US points to a pre-Hispanic scarlet macaw breeding colony

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

scientific article

Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Archaic period settlement and subsistence in the Maya lowlands: new starch grain and lithic data from Freshwater Creek, Belize

scholarly article by Robert M. Rosenswig et al published January 2014 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Are Nanodiamonds Evidence for a Younger Dryas Impact Event? ⬇️

abstract PP33B-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Author Correction: The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Bayesian Analysis of High-Precision AMS<sup>14</sup>C Dates from a Prehistoric Mexican Shellmound

scientific article published in 2011

Bayesian chronological analyses consistent with synchronous age of 12,835-12,735 Cal B.P. for Younger Dryas boundary on four continents ⬇️

scholarly article

Biogeographic problem-solving reveals the Late Pleistocene translocation of a short-faced bear to the California Channel Islands

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Buried Sites on the Soconusco Coastal Plain, Chiapas, Mexico

scientific article published in 1995

Central place foraging and shellfish processing on California’s Northern Channel Islands

scholarly article by Christopher S. Jazwa published in December 2015

Characterization of Archaeological Sediments Using Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and Portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF): An Application to Formative Period Pyro-Industrial Sites in Pacific Coastal Southern Chiapas, Mexico

scientific article published in January 2016

Chronology and Ecology of Late Pleistocene Megafauna in the Northern Willamette Valley, Oregon

Climate change–induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes

scientific article published in 2022

Climatic volatility, agricultural uncertainty, and the formation, consolidation and breakdown of preindustrial agrarian states

scientific article

Cocina cave revisited: Bayesian radiocarbon chronology for the last hunter-gatherers and first farmers in Eastern Iberia

scholarly article

Combining Relative Chronology and AMS 14C Dating to Contextualize ‘Megasites’, Serial Migrations and Diachronic Expressions of Material Culture in the Western Tripolye Culture, Ukraine

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

Comment on "The 12.9-ka ET Impact Hypothesis and North American Paleoindians"

comments by Douglas J. Kennett

Comment: Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims ⬇️

comment from Bunch et al. about the paper "Impacts, mega-tsunami, and other extraordinary claims"

Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Coastal Southern California

article

Compositional Characterization of Prehistoric Ceramics: A New Approach

scientific article published in May 2002

Correlating the ancient Maya and modern European calendars with high-precision AMS 14C dating

scientific article

Cosmic impact, the Younger Dryas, Abu Hureyra, and the inception of agriculture in Western Asia ⬇️

article by Andrew Moore and Douglas Kennett about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions

scientific article

Development and disintegration of Maya political systems in response to climate change

scientific article

Dietary Variability among a Sample of United States Soldiers during the War of 1812 ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2008

Differences in 14 C Age Between Stratigraphically Associated Charcoal and Marine Shell from the Archaic Period Site of Kilometer 4, Southern Peru: Old Wood or Old Water?

2002 scholarly article by Douglas J Kennett et al.

Discovery of a nanodiamond-rich layer in the Greenland ice sheet ⬇️

scholarly article

Dogs, humans and island ecosystems: the distribution, antiquity and ecology of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) on California's Channel Islands, USA

Drought Coincided with, but Does Not Explain, Late Holocene Megafauna Extinctions in SW Madagascar

scientific article published in September 2021

Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya

scientific article published in 2022

Dynamic changes in genomic and social structures in third millennium BCE central Europe

Early Americans: misstated results

scientific article

Early Formative Pottery Production, Mobility, and Exchange on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mexico

scientific article published in September 2011

Early State Formation in Southern Mesopotamia: Sea Levels, Shorelines, and Climate Change

Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Early metal use and crematory practices in the American Southeast

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Early procurement of scarlet macaws and the emergence of social complexity in Chaco Canyon, NM.

scientific article

Ecological Consequences of a Millennium of Introduced Dogs on Madagascar

scientific article published on 3 March 2021

Ecological dimensions of population dynamics and subsistence in Neo-Eneolithic Eastern Europe

article

Environmental and biotic change at the nanodiamond datum: The Younger Dryas boundary impact hypothesis

an abstract for the 25th Pacific Climate Workshop, 2011

Environmental imperatives reconsidered: demographic crises in western North America during the medieval climatic anomaly

scientific article

Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published in Nature

Evaluating airborne LiDAR for detecting settlements and modified landscapes in disturbed tropical environments at Uxbenká, Belize

scholarly article by Keith M. Prufer et al published May 2015 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Evidence for an Extraterrestrial Impact Event 12,900 years ago that Contributed to Megafaunal Extinctions and the Younger Dryas Cooling ⬇️

abstract PP43A-01 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling ⬇️

journal article published in 2007

Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago ⬇️

scholarly article

Exploring the Human Ecology of the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event ⬇️

abstract PP42A-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Eyed Bone Needles from a Younger Dryas Paleoindian Component at Tule Lake Rock Shelter, Northern California

article

Fatty acid specific δ13C values reveal earliest Mediterranean cheese production 7,200 years ago

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 November 2020

Forest clearance and agricultural expansion on Rapa, Austral Archipelago, French Polynesia

article

Formation of a Complex Polity on the Eastern Periphery of the Maya Lowlands

scholarly article by Keith M. Prufer published in June 2011

Four neglected concepts with a role to play in explaining the origins of agriculture

scientific article published in October 2009

Genomes from Verteba cave suggest diversity within the Trypillians in Ukraine

scientific article published in 2022

Genomic analyses reveal range‐wide devastation of sea otter populations

scientific article published in 2022

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

scientific article published on 22 February 2021

Great Lakes Copper and Shared Mortuary Practices on the Atlantic Coast: Implications for Long-Distance Exchange during the Late Archaic

scientific article published on 2 September 2019

Hexagonal Diamonds (Lonsdaleite) Discovered in the K/T Impact Layer in Spain and New Zealand ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1476 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

High-precision AMS 14 C chronology for Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada

2014 scholarly article by Douglas Kennett et al.

High-precision chronology for Central American maize diversification from El Gigante rockshelter, Honduras

scientific article

Human Ecology of Shellfish Exploitation at a Prehistoric Fishing-Farming Village on the Pacific Coast of Mexico

scientific article published on 4 May 2014

Human Impacts on Nearshore Shellfish Taxa: A 7,000 Year Record from Santa Rosa Island, California

Human responses to Middle Holocene climate change on California's Channel Islands

article

Hydrological Modeling and Prehistoric Settlement on Santa Rosa Island, California, USA

Hydrological and climatological controls on radiocarbon concentrations in a tropical stalagmite

scholarly article

Ideal free settlement of California’s Northern Channel Islands

scholarly article by Bruce Winterhalder published in December 2010

Impact-Shocked diamonds, Abrupt Ecosystem Disruption, and Mammoth Extinction on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Allerod-Younger Dryas Boundary (13.0-12.9 ka) ⬇️

abstract PP23D-04 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Influence of Holocene marine transgression and climate change on cultural evolution in southern Mesopotamia**This chapter appeared in somewhat different form in the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology 1:67–99, and is used with permission of the

scholarly article by Douglas J Kennett published in January 2007

Influence of Late Holocene Climate Change and Human Land Use on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems in Southwest Madagascar

scientific article published on 07 December 2021

Interactions between earliest Linearbandkeramik farmers and central European hunter gatherers at the dawn of European Neolithization

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Intertropical convergence zone variability in the Neotropics during the Common Era

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Is it agriculture yet? Intensified maize-use at 1000 cal BC in the Soconusco and Mesoamerica

scholarly article by Robert M. Rosenswig published in December 2015

Island-wide aridity did not trigger recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar

scientific article published in 2016

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

scientific article published in January 2022

Late Holocene Subsistence Change and Marine Productivity on Western Santa Rosa Island, Alta California ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2012

Late Holocene spread of pastoralism coincides with endemic megafaunal extinction on Madagascar

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction Consistent With YDB Impact Hypothesis at Younger Dryas Onset ⬇️

abstract PP23D-02 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans

scientific article

Life and death in early colonial Campeche: new insights from ancient DNA

scientific article published in 2022

Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Maritime Paleoindian technology, subsistence, and ecology at an ~11,700 year old Paleocoastal site on California's Northern Channel Islands, USA

scientific article published on 17 September 2020

Maritime Subsistence at a 9300 Year Old Shell Midden on Santa Rosa Island, California

scientific article published in 1999

Meat food preferences during the Late Archaic Period at Puerto Marqués, Guerrero, Mexico

scientific article published on 12 December 2020

Middle Holocene climate change and human population dispersal in western North America

Mineralogical and Noble Gas Evidence for an ET Impact at the Younger Dryas ⬇️

abstract PP41A-04 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

Minimizing risk on the margins: Insights on Iron Age agriculture from stable isotope analyses in central Croatia

scholarly article by Emily Zavodny published in December 2017

Nanodiamond-rich layer across three continents consistent with major cosmic impact at 12,800 cal BP ⬇️

journal article published in 2014

Nanodiamonds and Carbon Spherules from Tunguska, the K/T Boundary, and the Younger Dryas Boundary Layer ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1392 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Nanodiamonds in a Stratigraphic Datum Layer Correlated with the Continent-Wide Younger Dryas Impact Stratum (YDB) at 12.9 ka ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1473 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas boundary sediment layer

journal article published in 2009

Neolithic animal management practices and stable isotope studies in the Adriatic

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

On the Antiquity of the Single-Piece Shell Fishhook: AMS Radiocarbon Evidence from the Southern California Coast

article

Oxygen Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Shells to Detect Seasonal Use of Wetlands on the Southern Pacific Coast of Mexico

Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Paleo-Eskimo genetic legacy across North America

Paleodiet and health in a mass burial population: The stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes from Potočani, a 6,200‐year‐old massacre site in Croatia

scientific article

Paleoindian seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on California's Channel Islands

scientific article

Paleolithic DNA from the Caucasus reveals core of West Eurasian ancestry

Persistent Early to Middle Holocene tropical foraging in southwestern Amazonia

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Persistent northward North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration over the past five centuries

scientific article

Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly After Initial Settlement

scholarly article published 19 February 2018

Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly after Initial Settlement

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Population and Environmental Correlates of Maize Yields in Mesoamerica: a Test of Boserup’s Hypothesis in the Milpa

journal article from 'Human Ecology' published in 2015

Potential Consequences of the YDB Cosmic Impact at 12.8 kya

chapter in "Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain"

Prehistoric Sea Turtle Hunting on the Pacific Coast of Mexico

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Prehistoric human impacts on Rapa, French Polynesia

article

Presence of all Three Allotropes of Impact-Diamonds in the Younger Dryas Onset Layer (YDB) Across N America and NW Europe ⬇️

abstract PP23D-01 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Reassessing San Estevan's Role in the Late Formative Political Geography of Northern Belize

scholarly article by Robert M. Rosenswig published in June 2008

Reconsidering the Age and Typological Character of “Pox Pottery” from Guerrero, Mexico

scholarly article by Douglas J. Kennett published in May 2021

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

scientific article published on September 2017

Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

scientific article published on 08 November 2018

Recovery of the forest ecosystem in the tropical lowlands of northern Guatemala after disintegration of Classic Maya polities

scholarly article

Red abalone collecting and marine water temperature during the Middle Holocene occupation of Santa Cruz Island, California

scientific article published in July 2012

Reductions in the dietary niche of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) from the Holocene to the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 10 March 2020

Reply to Holliday and Boslough et al.: Synchroneity of widespread Bayesian-modeled ages supports Younger Dryas impact hypothesis ⬇️

scholarly article

Reply to van Hoesel et al.: Impact-related Younger Dryas boundary nanodiamonds from The Netherlands ⬇️

scholarly article

Seasonal stability in Late Holocene shellfish harvesting on the central California coast

Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments ⬇️

journal article published in 2009

Social identity and geographic origin of Maya burials at Actun Uayazba Kab, Roaring Creek Valley, Belize

scholarly article by Gabriel D. Wrobel published in March 2017

Sociopolitical effects of bow and arrow technology in prehistoric coastal California

scientific article

Soot as Evidence for Widespread Fires at the Younger Dryas Onset (YDB; 12.9 ka) ⬇️

abstract PP13C-1471 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

Standards of evidence and Paleoindian demographics. ⬇️

scholarly article

Summary of impact markers and potential impact mechanisms for the YDB impact event at 12.9 ka ⬇️

abstract PP33B-10 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

Taphonomic processes inconsistent with indigenous Mesolithic acculturation during the transition to the Neolithic in the Western Mediterranean

scholarly article

Testing Younger Dryas ET Impact (YDB) Evidence at Hall's Cave, Texas ⬇️

abstract PP33B-08 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Classic Period Maya transition from an ideal free to an ideal despotic settlement system at the polity of Uxbenká

scholarly article by Keith M. Prufer published in March 2017

The Cross Creek Site (CA-SLO-1797) and Its Implications for New World Colonization

article

The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia

article

The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe

The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

The Younger Dryas ET Impact Theory and Terminal Pleistocene Mammalian Extinctions in North America ⬇️

abstract PP43A-06 for the American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007

The character of conflict: A bioarchaeological study of violence in the Nasca highlands of Peru during the Late Intermediate Period (950-1450 C.E.).

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

scientific article

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

scholarly article

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

scientific article

The political collapse of Chichén Itzá in climatic and cultural context

scholarly article

The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2007)

The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Trans–Holocene Bayesian chronology for tree and field crop use from El Gigante rockshelter, Honduras

scientific article published in 2023

Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

Two teosintes made modern maize

scientific article published on 30 November 2023

Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago ⬇️

scholarly article

Where were the northern elephant seals? Holocene archaeology and biogeography of Mirounga angustirostris

scholarly article by Torben C. Rick published in June 2011

Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød–Younger Dryas boundary (13.0–12.9ka)

scholarly article

Wildfires, Soot and Fullerenes in the 12,900 ka Younger Dryas boundary layer in North America ⬇️

abstract PP31D-1393 for the American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009

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