According to the current paradigm, the remote and enigmatic Easter Island, in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is thought to have been discovered and settled by Polynesian sailors between about 800 and 1200 CE. However, recent studies using the latest genomic,…
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Easter Island discovery: all options remain open
Tagged with: archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human disturbance, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, South America, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Posted in My publications, Quaternary Journal
Paleoecology of Easter Island – new eBook
After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island’s ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. A new eBook published by Frontiers (Lausane, Switzerland) provides a synthetic view of…
Tagged with: agriculture, archaeology, Chile, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, culture, deforestation, discovery, DNA, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, geology, history, human disturbance, journal, methods, migration, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, open access, paleoanthropology, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogenetics, pollen, Polynesia, publications, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Books, My publications
Posted in Books, My publications
Special issue on island colonization by humans
The journal Quaternary launches a new special issue entitled “The human footprint on islands – the ecological impact of discovery and colonization” edited by Erik de Boer (Institute of earth Science jaume Almera-CSIC, Spain), Lea de Nascimento (University of La Laguna, Spain),…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, Azores Islands, biodiversity, climate change, collapse, colonization, conservation, cultural change, deforestation, ecology, environmental degradation, extinction, fire, history, human colonization, human disturbance, islands, journal, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
Posted in Quaternary Journal
Posted in Quaternary Journal
A holistic view of Easter Island’s history
CLAFS (Cimate-Landscape-Anthropogenic Feedbacks and Synergies) is a hypothesis integrating natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological and cultural change aimed at unraveling Easter Island’s history under a holistic perspective Our latest paper paper reviews the existing hypotheses concerning the cultural shift…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, climate change, collapse, colonization, cultural change, deforestation, Easter Island, ecology, environmental degradation, fire, history, human disturbance, moai, natural resources, nature overexploitation, oceanic islands, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, pollen, Polynesia, Quaternary, Rapa Nui, resource exhaustion, socio-ecology, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in My publications
Curso de postgrado de Paleoecología (2018)
La próxima edición del curso de postgrado de Paleoecología que se imparte cada año en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (ICTJA-CSIC) tendrá lugar entre el 7 y el 18 de Mayo de 2018. Se trata de…
Tagged with: anthropocene, archaeology, climate change, conservation, ecology, environmental degradation, evolution, extinction, fire, global change, history, human disturbance, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, palynology, phylogeography, pollen, Quaternary, socio-ecology, speciation, vegetation change, vegetation dynamics
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Posted in courses, Teaching
A really old wine!
A recent PNAS paper reports molecular traces of a 6000-year old wine in the Caucasus region. The discovery was made by researchers of several American and European institutions on large jars reconstructed from pottery fragments found in newly excavated Neolithic…
Tagged with: agriculture, archaeology, culture, history, Holocene, Neolithic, pottery, Quaternary, viniculture, wine
Posted in archaeology
Posted in archaeology
‘Quaternary’ is open for submissions
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the launching of a new open-access journal called “Quaternary” covering all aspects of Quaternary science. “Quaternary” aims to be a high-quality, multidisciplinary and influential journal in the field, for which we have assembled…
Tagged with: abrupt changes, age-depth modelling, anthropocene, anthropogenic warming, archaeology, atmosphere dynamics, biogeochemistry, biotic responses, chronology, climat-human synergies, climate change, climatic modelling, climatic predictions, colonization, community assembly, corals, correlation, cultural evolution, dating, dendroclimatology, dendroecology, diversification, DNA, documentary archives, earth system, ecological dynamics, ecology, evolution, extinction, field methods, fire, forensic scienceç, geograaphy, geology, geomorphology, geophysics, GIS, glaciology, global change, high resolution, Homo sapiens, human disturbance, human evolution, humanization, laboratory methods, laminated sediments, latitudinal diversity gradients, macroecology, migration, mineralogy, monitoring, natural hazards, natural resources, Neanderthal, Neolithic revolution, non-analogue ecosystems, ocean dynamics, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, paleohydrology, paleontology, paleosciences, palynology, petrology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, physical geography, population dynamics, proxies, Quaternary, range shifts, resource management, restoration, risk assessment, sea-level history, sedimentology, soil science, speciation, stratigraphy, succession, tectonics, tree rings, vegetation dynamics, volcanology
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Posted in Journals
