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Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions
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This work focuses on four major phases that witnessed broad anthropogenic alterations to biodiversity—the Late Pleistocene global human expansion, the Neolithic spread of agriculture, the era of island colonization, and the emergence of early urbanized societies and commercial networks.
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East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world
The Indian Ocean has long been a forum for contact, trade and the transfer of goods, technologies and ideas between geographically distant groups of people. Another, less studied, outcome of…
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Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure
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The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world
Ancient DNA analysis of archaeological cat remains shows cats dispersed along trade routes from the Neolithic era onwards, while its gene pool shows admixture from multiple geographical sources and…
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The differential survival of native starch during cooking and implications for archaeological analyses: a review
  • A. Crowther
  • Chemistry
    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • 17 May 2012
Cooking makes foods more palatable and digestible, less toxic and suitable for longer-term storage. Starch granules usually undergo gelatinisation during cooking, resulting in the loss of native…
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Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa
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The contraction of diverse, once contiguous hunter-gatherer populations in sub-Saharan Africa is demonstrated, and the resistance to interaction with incoming pastoralists of delayed-return foragers in aquatic environments is suggested.
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Exploring agriculture, interaction and trade on the eastern African littoral: preliminary results from Kenya
There is a growing interest in transoceanic connections between prehistoric communities occupying the Indian Ocean rim. Corroborative and well-sequenced archaeological data from eastern Africa have,…
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The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter
Abstract The Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter in southern India dates back to 35 000 years ago and it is emerging as one of the key sites for documenting human activity and behaviour in South Asia.…
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Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade, and the Colonization of Small Offshore Islands in Eastern African Prehistory
ABSTRACT Recent archaeological research has firmly established eastern Africa's offshore islands as important localities for understanding the region's pre-Swahili maritime adaptations and early…
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Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: comparison and contrast
Abstract A recent paper by Jones et al. (Food globalization in prehistory, World Archaeology, 2011, 43(4), 665–75) explores a prehistoric ‘Trans-Eurasian’ episode of food globalization characterized…
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