A5040149640- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Community Development and Social Impact
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Columbia University
2022-2025
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
2023-2024
National Museum of Natural History
2016-2023
Smithsonian Institution
2016-2023
Pennsylvania State University
2017-2022
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
2021
Hudson Institute
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
Yale University
2015
A synthetic history of human land use Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 8000 years ago. Through a collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled comprehensive picture trajectory worldwide during Holocene (see Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed face Earth earlier greater extent than has been widely appreciated, transformation that was essentially global 3000 before present....
Climate change impacts island communities all over the world. Sea-level rise, an increase in frequency and intensity of severe weather events, changes distribution health marine organisms are among most significant processes affecting worldwide. On islands Caribbean southwestern Indian Ocean (SWIO), however, today’s climate magnified by historical environmental injustice colonial legacies, which have heightened vulnerability human other biotic communities. For some islands, archaeological...
Worldwide, marginalized and low-income communities will disproportionately suffer climate change impacts while also retaining the least political power to mitigate their consequences. To adapt environmental shocks, must balance intensifying natural resource consumption with need ensure sustainability of ecosystem provisioning services. Thus, scientists have long been providing policy recommendations that seek humanitarian needs best outcomes for conservation ecosystems wildlife. However,...
Recently expanded estimates for when humans arrived on Madagascar (up to approximately 10 000 years ago) highlight questions about the causes of island's relatively late megafaunal extinctions (approximately 2000–500 ago). Introduced domesticated animals could have contributed extinctions, but arrival times and past diets exotic are poorly known. To conduct first explicit test potential competition between introduced livestock extinct endemic megafauna in southern western Madagascar, we...
Narratives of landscape degradation are often linked to unsustainable fire use by local communities. Madagascar is a case in point: the island considered globally exceptional, with its remarkable endemic biodiversity viewed as threatened anthropogenic fire. Yet, regimes on have not been empirically characterised or contextualised. Here, we contribute comparative approach determining relationships between regional and global patterns trends, applied using MODIS remote sensing data...
Abstract The concept of the ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ has assisted researchers in understanding how expectations for health environment deteriorate, despite known, often widespread, and significant impacts from human activities. been used to demonstrate that more accurate assessment historical ecosystem decline can be achieved by balancing contemporary perceptions with other sorts evidence, is now widely referred studies assessing environmental change. potential this as a model examining...
In this paper, we advocate a collaborative approach to investigating past human–environment interactions in southwest Madagascar. We do so by critically reflecting as team on the development of Morombe Archaeological Project, initiated 2011 collaboration between an American archaeologist and Vezo communities Velondriake Marine Protected Area. Our objectives are assess our trajectory building partnerships with diverse local, indigenous, descendent provide concrete suggestions for new projects...
Abstract As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even teams in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer‐reviewed publication as principal manifestation knowledge production propose method for challenging division,...
ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even teams in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer‐reviewed publication as principal manifestation knowledge production propose method for challenging division,...
Abstract Remote sensing technology has become a standard tool for archaeological prospecting. Yet the ethical guidelines associated with use of these technologies are not well established and even less‐often discussed in published literature. With nearly unobstructed view large geographic spaces, aerial spaceborne remote creates an asymmetrical power dynamic between observers observed. Here, we explore dynamics involved sensing, using Foucault's notion panopticon. In many other areas...
Shellfish represent an important component of human diet, especially for coastal communities, and shells are integral to a wide range activities social interactions. In addition providing rich information on questions subsistence, daily ritual practices, trade exchange, shellfish remains serve as sensitive paleoecological indicators changes in climate environment. The exploitation by ancient communities is well-studied field archaeology; however, little has been published date with regard...
Abstract The systematics of Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds remains controversial due to large gaps in the fossil record and poor biomolecular preservation skeletal specimens. Here, a molecular analysis 1000-year-old eggshells provides first description bird phylogeography offers insight into ecology evolution these flightless giants. Mitochondrial genomes from across Madagascar reveal genetic variation that is correlated with eggshell morphology, stable isotope composition, geographic...
Abstract Background Communities in southwest Madagascar have co‐evolved with a hypervariable environment and climate. The paleoclimate record reflects major fluctuations climatic conditions over the course of Holocene human settlement. Archeological evidence indicates short‐term occupations sites, suggesting that frequent residential mobility flexible subsistence strategies been central features life on coast for millennia. Today, despite rapid changes linked to globalization increasing...
Landscape archaeology has a long history of using predictive models to improve our knowledge extant archaeological features around the world. Important advancements in spatial statistics, however, have been slow enter modeling. Point process (PPMs), particular, offer powerful solution explicitly model both first- and second-order properties point pattern. Here, we use PPMs refine recently developed remote sensing-based algorithm applied record Madagascar’s southwestern coast. This initial...
How early human foragers impacted insular forests is a topic with implications across multiple disciplines, including resource management. Paradoxically, terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene impacts of foraging communities have been characterized as both extreme-as in debates over human-driven faunal extinctions-and minimal compared to later landscape transformations by farmers herders. We investigated how rainforest hunter-gatherers managed resources montane New Guinea present some the...