environmental impacts of first colonizers (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Siegel. John Jones. Deborah Pearsall. Nicholas Dunning. Pat Farrell.

Identifying first human colonization of new places is challenging, especially when groups were small and material traces of their occupations were ephemeral. Generating reliable reconstructions of human-colonization patterns from intact archaeological sites may be exceedingly difficult given post-depositional taphonomic processes and in cases of island and coastal locations the inundation of landscapes resulting from post-Pleistocene sea-level rise. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction is a better...