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The Holocene is a high impact, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to fundamental scientific research at the interface between the long Quaternary record and the natural and human-induced environmental processes operating at the Earth's surface today. The Holocene emphasizes environmental change over the last ca 11 700 years. View full journal description

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Late-Holocene palaeoecological reconstruction of Southern Hemisphere Westerlies variability on Subantarctic Macquarie Island

  • Yuqiao Natalie Deng
  • Stephen J. Roberts
  • Krystyna M. Saunders
  • Bianca Perren
  • Caitlin Selfe
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A Late-Holocene pollen record from the coastal Mkhuze swamp, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  • Angela C. Effiom
  • Louis Scott
  • Frank Herald Neumann
  • Enno Schefuß
  • Julia Gensel
  • Annette Hahn
  • Marion K. Bamford
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The legacy of post-Columbian disturbance in shaping a northwestern Amazonian forest

  • Lina Cabrera Sáenz
  • Crystal N. H. McMichael
  • Meghan R. O’Connor
  • Nina H. Witteveen
  • Bianca Tacoronte Gomes
  • Kayla Filjon
  • Olivia John
  • Braum Tokarski
  • Larry C. Peterson
  • Jack E. Dibb
  • Mark B. Bush
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Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago

  • Noel Amano
  • Greg Bankoff
  • David Max Findley
  • Grace Barretto-Tesoro
  • Patrick Roberts
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The collapse of the North Song dynasty and the AD 1048–1128 Yellow River floods: Geoarchaeological evidence from northern Henan Province, China

  • Michael J Storozum
  • Qin Zhen
  • Ren Xiaolin
  • Li Haiming
  • Cui Yifu
  • Fu Kui
  • Liu Haiwang
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Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find

  • Lars Pilø
  • Thomas Reitmaier
  • Andrea Fischer
  • James H Barrett
  • Atle Nesje
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Wildfire-induced soil erosion in northern Finland watersheds

  • Marion Lacand
  • Hugo Asselin
  • Tuomas Aakala
  • Damien Rius
  • Marianne Vogel
  • Laure Paradis
  • Adam A Ali
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Current sika deer effective population size is near to reaching its historically highest level in the Japanese archipelago by release from hunting rather than climate change and top predator extinction

  • Hayato Iijima
  • Junco Nagata
  • Ayako Izuno
  • Kentaro Uchiyama
  • Nobuhiro Akashi
  • Daisuke Fujiki
  • Takeo Kuriyama
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The ‘Little Ice Age’ advance of Nigardsbreen, Norway: A cross-disciplinary revision of the chronological framework

  • Marthe Gjerde
  • Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel
  • Atle Nesje
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Palaeoclimatic shifts in the Central Ganga Basin during the Middle- to Late Holocene: Exploring the 4.2 ka arid event and its implications in northern India

  • Sreya Sengupta
  • Anil K Gupta
  • Manoj Kumar Jaiswal
  • Pankaj Kumar
  • Prasanta Sanyal
  • Shilpa Pandey
  • Dhruv Sen Singh
  • Arun Kaushik
  • Anoop Kumar Singh
  • Biswajit Palar
  • Rajveer Sharma
  • Vartika Singh
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Late-Holocene maize cultivation, fire, and forest change at Lake Ayauchi, Amazonian Ecuador

  • Christine M Åkesson
  • Crystal NH McMichael
  • Susana León-Yánez
  • Mark B Bush
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