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

Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration

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Population pressure and prehistoric violence in the Yayoi period of Japan

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Rainfall, temperature, and Classic Maya conflict: A comparison of hypotheses using Bayesian time-series analysis

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

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Late Glacial and Early Holocene human demographic responses to climatic and environmental change in Atlantic Iberia

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Was Drought Really the Trigger Behind the Syrian Civil War in 2011?

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When to defend? Optimal territoriality across the Numic homeland

(2018) Ashley K. Parker et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Population reconstructions for humans and megafauna suggest mixed causes for North American Pleistocene extinctions

(2018) Jack M. Broughton et al.   Nature Communications

Population is the main driver of war group size and conflict casualties

(2017) Rahul C. Oka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

(2017) Douglas J. Kennett et al.   Nature Communications

Resource scarcity drives lethal aggression among prehistoric hunter-gatherers in central California

(2016) Mark W. Allen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Civil conflict sensitivity to growing-season drought

(2016) Nina von Uexkull et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Behavioral ecology and the future of archaeological science

(2015) Brian F. Codding et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

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

(2015) Douglas J. Kennett et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

A continental narrative: Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years

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Extreme Weather and Civil War: Does Drought Fuel Conflict in Somalia through Livestock Price Shocks?

(2014) J.-F. Maystadt et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Summed radiocarbon calibrations as a population proxy: a critical evaluation using a realistic simulation approach

(2014) Daniel A. Contreras et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

(2014) Lars Fehren-Schmitz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria

(2014) Peter H. Gleick   Weather Climate and Society

Is climate change a driver of armed conflict?

(2013) Ole Magnus Theisen et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Environmental productivity predicts migration, demographic, and linguistic patterns in prehistoric California

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Annually Resolved Ice Core Records of Tropical Climate Variability over the Past  1800 Years

(2013) L. G. Thompson et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict

(2013) S. M. Hsiang et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) Stephen Shennan et al.   Nature Communications

Fragile landscapes, fragile civilizations — How climate determined societies in the pre-Columbian south Peruvian Andes

(2012) B. Mächtle et al.   CATENA

A continuous climatic impact on Holocene human population in the Rocky Mountains

(2012) R. L. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

(2012) D. J. Kennett et al.   SCIENCE

The causality analysis of climate change and large-scale human crisis

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Relative status regulates risky decision making about resources in men: evidence for the co-evolution of motivation and cognition

(2008) Elsa Ermer et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

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(2008) X.T. Wang et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Standards of evidence and Paleoindian demographics

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Crude demographic proxy reveals nothing about Paleoindian population

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