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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
17494
World Ranking
1433
National Ranking
612

Best Publications

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Iain Mathieson;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

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

    Douglas J. Kennett;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Valorie V. Aquino;Yemane Asmerom

  • Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

    Pontus Skoglund;Jessica C. Thompson;Mary E. Prendergast;Alissa Mittnik

  • Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

    Chuan Chao Wang;Hui Yuan Yeh;Alexander N. Popov;Hu Qin Zhang

  • Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

    Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Nathan Nakatsuka;Nathan Nakatsuka;Iosif Lazaridis;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund

  • Paleoindian seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on california’s channel islands

    Jon M. Erlandson;Torben C. Rick;Todd J. Braje;Molly Casperson

  • The Island Chumash: Behavioral Ecology of a Maritime Society

    Douglas J. Kennett

  • Competitive and Cooperative Responses to Climatic Instability in Coastal Southern California

    Douglas J. Kennett;James P. Kennett

  • Environmental imperatives reconsidered: demographic crises in western North America during the medieval climatic anomaly

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  • Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

    Douglas J. Kennett;Stephen Plog;Richard J. George;Brendan J. Culleton

  • Tropical Pacific - mid-latitude teleconnections in medieval times

    Nicholas E. Graham;Nicholas E. Graham;Malcolm K. Hughes;Caspar M. Ammann;Kim M. Cobb

  • COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA)

    Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Kira Rehfeld;Kira Rehfeld;Bedartha Goswami;Bedartha Goswami;James U.L. Baldini

  • An archaeological and paleontological chronology for Daisy Cave (CA-SMI-261), San Miguel Island, California

    Jon M. Erlandson;Douglas J. Kennett;B. Lynn Ingram;Daniel A. Guthrie

  • Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America

    Pavel Flegontov;Pavel Flegontov;Pavel Flegontov;N. Ezgi Altınışık;Piya Changmai;Nadin Rohland

  • Behavioral ecology and the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture

    Bruce Winterhalder;Douglas James Kennett

  • Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans

    James C. Chatters;Douglas J. Kennett;Yemane Asmerom;Brian M. Kemp

  • Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly after Initial Settlement

    Mark Lipson;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Matthew Spriggs;Frederique Valentin

  • Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer

    D. J. Kennett;J. P. Kennett;A. West;C. Mercer

  • Ancient Maya impacts on the Earth's surface: An Early Anthropocene analog?

    Timothy Beach;Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach;Duncan Cook;Nicholas Dunning

  • Ancient DNA reveals a multistep spread of the first herders into sub-Saharan Africa

    Mary E. Prendergast;Mary E. Prendergast;Mark Lipson;Elizabeth A. Sawchuk;Iñigo Olalde

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon M. Erlandson
Jon M. Erlandson University of Oregon
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett University of California, Santa Barbara
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Yemane Asmerom
Yemane Asmerom University of New Mexico
Ted E. Bunch
Ted E. Bunch Northern Arizona University
Victor J. Polyak
Victor J. Polyak University of New Mexico
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach Northumbria University
Torben C. Rick
Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History
James U. L. Baldini
James U. L. Baldini Durham University

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