Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion

A multi-proxy inference of Jōmon population dynamics using bayesian phase models, residential data, and summed probability distribution of 14C dates

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THE INTCAL20 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE RADIOCARBON AGE CALIBRATION CURVE (0–55 CAL kBP)

(2020) Paula J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Understanding the 2500 yr BP rainforest crisis in West and Central Africa in the framework of the Late Holocene: Pluridisciplinary analysis and multi-archive reconstruction

(2020) Pierre Giresse et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

INFERENCE FROM LARGE SETS OF RADIOCARBON DATES: SOFTWARE AND METHODS

(2020) Enrico R Crema et al.   RADIOCARBON

Evidence of crop production losses in West Africa due to historical global warming in two crop models

(2019) Benjamin Sultan et al.   Scientific Reports

137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

(2018) Peter de Barros Damgaard et al.   NATURE

Early anthropogenic impact on Western Central African rainforests 2,600 y ago

(2018) Yannick Garcin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The roles of climate and human land-use in the late Holocene rainforest crisis of Central Africa

(2018) Germain Bayon et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates

(2017) E.R. Crema et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate

(2017) Andrew Bevan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forests and rivers: The archaeology of the north eastern Congo

(2017) Alexandre Livingstone Smith et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Late Holocene forest contraction and fragmentation in central Africa

(2017) Jean Maley et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

(2017) Etienne Patin et al.   SCIENCE

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

(2016) David J. Nash et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Conflation of Short Identity-by-Descent Segments Bias Their Inferred Length Distribution

(2016) Charleston W. K. Chiang et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Summed Probability Distribution of 14C Dates Suggests Regional Divergences in the Population Dynamics of the Jomon Period in Eastern Japan

(2016) Enrico R. Crema et al.   PLoS One

Charcoal-inferred Holocene fire and vegetation history linked to drought periods in the Democratic Republic of Congo

(2015) Wannes Hubau et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Neolithic population and summed probability distribution of 14C-dates

(2015) Tobias Torfing   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals

(2015) Rebecca Grollemund et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets

(2015) Christopher C Chang et al.   GigaScience

Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method

(2014) Adrian Timpson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541–543 AD: a genomic analysis

(2014) David M Wagner et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Modelling the Spread of Farming in the Bantu-Speaking Regions of Africa: An Archaeology-Based Phylogeography

(2014) Thembi Russell et al.   PLoS One

Soil Charcoal to Assess the Impacts of Past Human Disturbances on Tropical Forests

(2014) Jason Vleminckx et al.   PLoS One

Genetic variation reveals large-scale population expansion and migration during the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples

(2014) S. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara

(2014) Katie Manning et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Improving the Accuracy and Efficiency of Identity-by-Descent Detection in Population Data

(2013) B. L. Browning et al.   GENETICS

Climatic and cultural changes in the west Congo Basin forests over the past 5000 years

(2013) R. Oslisly et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa

(2013) T. E. Currie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe

(2013) Stephen Shennan et al.   Nature Communications

The freshwater reservoir effect in radiocarbon dating

(2013) Bente Philippsen   Heritage Science

Evidence from Y-chromosome analysis for a late exclusively eastern expansion of the Bantu-speaking people

(2012) Naser Ansari Pour et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Demography and the intensity of cultural activities: an evaluation of Funnel Beaker Societies (4200–2800 cal BC)

(2012) Martin Hinz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Bringing together linguistic and genetic evidence to test the Bantu expansion

(2012) C. de Filippo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intensifying Weathering and Land Use in Iron Age Central Africa

(2012) Germain Bayon et al.   SCIENCE

The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

(2011) Alan N. Williams   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

First farmers in the Central African rainforest: A view from southern Cameroon

(2011) Katharina Neumann et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

(2011) U. Buntgen et al.   SCIENCE

Robust relationship inference in genome-wide association studies

(2010) Ani Manichaikul et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Yersinia pestis genome sequencing identifies patterns of global phylogenetic diversity

(2010) Giovanna Morelli et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Anthracology and taphonomy, from wood gathering to charcoal analysis. A review of the taphonomic processes modifying charcoal assemblages, in archaeological contexts

(2009) Isabelle Théry-Parisot et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Seasonality change and the third millennium BP rainforest crisis in southern Cameroon (Central Africa)

(2009) Alfred Ngomanda et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH