Holocene

Papers
(The TQCC of Holocene is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates41
Spatial and temporal pattern of rice domestication during the early Holocene in the lower Yangtze region, China32
A new Holocene sea-level record for Singapore26
Vegetation response to the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) variability during the Late-Holocene from the central Indian core monsoon zone24
Carbon accumulation in peatlands along a boreal to subarctic transect in eastern Canada22
Long-term and recent ecohydrological dynamics of patterned peatlands in north-central Quebec (Canada)19
Considering change with archaeological data: Reevaluating local variation in the role of the ~4.2k BP event in Northwest China19
The distribution of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in Patagonia during Late Pleistocene–Holocene and its importance for prehistoric human diet18
Late-Holocene: Cooler or warmer?17
The glacier advance at the onset of the Little Ice Age in the Alps: New evidence from Mont Miné and Morteratsch glaciers16
Climate model experiments on the 4.2 ka event: The impact of tropical sea-surface temperature anomalies and desertification16
Linking Holocene East Asian monsoon variability to solar forcing and ENSO activity: Multi-proxy evidence from a peatland in Northeastern China15
Modern pollen – vegetation – plant diversity relationships across large environmental gradients in northern Greece15
Humid and cold periods in the last 5600 years in Arid Central Asia revealed by palynology of Picea schrenkiana from Issyk-Kul14
Widely used charcoal analysis method in paleo studies involving NaOCl results in loss of charcoal formed below 400°C14
Modern pollen–vegetation relationships along an altitudinal transect in the Western Higher Himalaya, India: Palaeoclimatic and anthropogenic implications12
Holocene hydroclimate changes in continental Croatia recorded in speleothem δ13C and δ18O from Nova Grgosova Cave12
Synergy between climate and human land-use maintained open vegetation in southwest Madagascar over the last millennium12
Social and environmental factors influencing dietary choices among Dawenkou culture sites, Late Neolithic China12
Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar11
A 2000-year documentary record of levee breaches on the lower Yellow River and their relationship with climate changes and human activities11
Linking testate amoeba assemblages to paleohydrology and ecosystem function in Holocene peat records from the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada11
The link between climate change and biodiversity of lacustrine inhabitants and terrestrial plant communities of the Uvs Nuur Basin (Mongolia) during the last three millennia10
A speleothem record from Portugal reveals phases of increased winter precipitation in western Iberia during the Holocene10
Holocene development of the Vistula Spit (Baltic Sea coast) based on multidisciplinary investigations10
Modeling the retreat of the Aneto Glacier (Spanish Pyrenees) since the Little Ice Age, and its accelerated shrinkage over recent decades10
Holocene sedimentation in the Hupo Trough of the southwestern East Sea (Japan Sea) and development of the East Korea Warm Current10
Holocene hydroclimate reconstruction based on pollen, XRF, and grain-size analyses and its implications for past societies of the Korean Peninsula10
The role of sea-level changes in the evolution of coastal barriers – An example from the southwestern Baltic Sea10
Bone collagen stable isotope analysis of a Bronze Age site of Liushugou and its implication for subsistence strategy in arid northwest China10
A late-Holocene multiproxy fire record from a tropical savanna, eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia10
Ancient to recent-past runoff harvesting agriculture in the hyper-arid Arava Valley: OSL dating and insights9
Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age9
Intensive acorn processing in the early Holocene of southern China9
Interpreting archaeological site-formation processes at a mountain ice patch: A case study from Langfonne, Norway9
Analysis of relationship between soil erosion and lake deposition during the Holocene in Xingyun Lake, southwestern China9
Spatiotemporal changes in early human land use during the Holocene throughout the Yangtze River Basin, China9
Agricultural adaptations to topography and climate changes in Central China during the mid- to late-Holocene9
Interdisciplinary study on dietary complexity in Central China during the Longshan Period (4.5–3.8 kaBP): New isotopic evidence from Wadian and Haojiatai, Henan Province9
Crop water status from plant stable carbon isotope values: A test case for monsoonal climates9
Climate-human-landscape interaction in the eastern foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro (equatorial East Africa) during the last two millennia9
Lake level evidence for a mid-Holocene East Asian summer monsoon maximum and the impact of an abrupt late-Holocene drought event on prehistoric cultures in north-central China9
Development and degradation of a submontane forest in the Beskid Wyspowy Mountains (Polish Western Carpathians) during the Holocene9
New evidence for active talus-foot rock glaciers at Øyberget, southern Norway, and their development during the Holocene9
Timing and structure of early-Holocene climate anomalies inferred from north Chinese stalagmite records8
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 extinctio8
Mid- to late-Holocene analysis of the influence of the La Plata River plume on the southwestern Atlantic shelf: A paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on lipid biomarkers and benthic foraminifera8
New radiocarbon dating and archaeological evidence reveal the westward migration of prehistoric humans in the drylands of the Asian interior8
Late-Holocene advances of the Greater Azau Glacier (Elbrus area, Northern Caucasus) revealed by 14C dating of paleosols8
Late-Holocene relative sea-level changes and palaeoenvironment of the Pre-Viking Age ship burials in Salme, Saaremaa Island, eastern Baltic Sea8
An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank8
Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary8
New evidence for early human habitation in the Nyingchi Region, Southeast Tibetan Plateau8
Climate and ice conditions of East Siberian Sea during Holocene: Reconstructions based on sedimentary geochemical multiproxy8
Late-Holocene forest resilience in the central Pyrenean highlands as deduced from pollen analysis of Lake Sant Maurici sediments8
Holocene climate events and associated land use changes in the eastern coast of India: Inferences from the Chilika Lagoon8
The Holocene paleoenvironmental history of Western Caucasus (Russia) reconstructed by multi-proxy analysis of the continuous sediment sequence from Lake Khuko8
Peatland initiation in Central European Russia during the Holocene: Effect of climate conditions and fires8
The Baigetuobie cemetery: New discovery and human genetic features of Andronovo community’s diffusion to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains (1800–1500 BC)8
Biodiversity and ecology of plants and arthropods on the last preserved glacier of the Apennines mountain chain (Italy)8
The history of human land use activities in the Northern Alps since the Neolithic Age. A reconstruction of vegetation and fire history in the Mangfall Mountains (Bavaria, Germany)8
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Holocene copal and Defaunation resin from Eastern Africa indicate Recent biodiversity change8
The mutual ecogeographical range and paleoclimatic reconstruction during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene in the Pampas (Argentina) using meso and microvertebrate fossils8
Late-Holocene maize cultivation, fire, and forest change at Lake Ayauchi, Amazonian Ecuador7
Adaptions in subsistence strategy to environment changes across the Younger Dryas - Early Holocene boundary at Körtiktepe, Southeastern Turkey7
Pollen evidence of variations in Holocene climate and Southern Hemisphere Westerly Wind strength on sub-Antarctic South Georgia7
Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)7
Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)7
Modeled dispersal patterns for wood and grass charcoal are different: Implications for paleofire reconstruction7
Paleoparasitological study of Holocene South American camelids (ca. 8970–470 years 14C BP) from an archaeological site, Southern Puna of Argentina (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca)7
Atmospheric effects in Scotland of the AD 1783–84 Laki eruption in Iceland7
Environmental evolution and anthropogenic forcing in the Garigliano coastal plain (Italy) during the Holocene7
Following the herds? A new distribution of hunting kites in Southwest Asia7
Aboriginal earth mounds of the Calperum Floodplain (Murray Darling Basin, South Australia): New radiocarbon dates, sediment analyses and syntheses, and implications for behavioural change7
Pollen productivity estimates strongly depend on assumed pollen dispersal II: Extending the ERV model7
Sedimentary grain-size record of Holocene runoff fluctuations in the Lake Lugu watershed, SE Tibetan Plateau7
Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental and land-use changes in Western Greece based on a sediment record from Klisova lagoon7
Evidence for a winter-snowpack derived water source for the Fremont maize farmers of Range Creek Canyon, Utah, USA7
Source-to-sink and evolutionary processes of the East China Sea inner-shelf mud belt and its response to environmental changes since the Holocene: New evidence from the distal mud belt7
Biogeochemical evidence for environmental and vegetation changes in peatlands from the middle Yangtze river catchment during the medieval warm period and little ice Age7
Holocene ice-free strait followed by dynamic Neoglacial fluctuations: Hornsund, Svalbard7
Past testate amoeba communities in landslide mountain fens (Polish Carpathians): The relationship between shell types and sediment7
A preliminary study on sediment records of possible typhoon in the northern South China Sea during the past 6500 years7
Linking modern pollen accumulation rates to biomass: Quantitative vegetation reconstruction in the western Klamath Mountains, NW California, USA7
Dating the origins of persistent oak shrubfields in northern New Mexico using soil charcoal and dendrochronology7
Late-Holocene fluctuations of monsoonal Qiangyong Glacier, southern Tibetan Plateau6
High-resolution record of geochemical, vegetational and molluscan shifts in a Central European spring-fed fen: implications for regional paleoclimate during the early and mid-Holocene6
Vegetation and environmental changes since the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from a lake core from Saiyong Co, central Tibetan Plateau6
The Baltic grey seal: A 9000-year history of presence and absence6
Prehistoric pigment production on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), c. AD 1200–1650: New insights from Vaipú and Poike based on phytoliths, diatoms and 14C dating6
Mid- to late-Holocene sea-level evolution of the northeastern Aegean sea6
Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland6
Relative pollen productivity estimates of savanna taxa from southern Africa and their application to reconstruct shrub encroachment during the last century6
Water management and wheat yields in ancient China: Carbon isotope discrimination of archaeological wheat grains6
Solar-type periodicities in the climate variability of Northern Fennoscandia during the last three centuries: Real influence of solar activity or natural instability in the climate system6
Holocene evolution of a barrier-spit complex and the interaction of tidal and wave processes, Inskip Peninsula, SE Queensland, Australia6
Historical environmental changes in the Poyang Lake basin (Yangtze River, China) and impacts on agricultural activities6
Influences of sea level on depositional environment during the last 1000 years in the southwestern Bengal delta, Bangladesh6
The Middle Holocene ‘funerary avenues’ of north-west Arabia6
Synchronous change in the intensified millet cultivation and ecological environment from the early to middle Holocene on the Inner Mongolia Plateau, northern China6
Forest ecosystem development in European nemoreal-boreal forest (NE Poland) over the last 2200 years: Impact of human activity and climate change5
Repeated survey along the foreland of a receding Norwegian glacier reveals shifts in succession of beetles and spiders5
Climate and land-use effects on hydrological and vegetation signals during the last three millennia: Evidence from sedimentary leaf waxes in southwestern Morocco5
Four peat humification-recorded Holocene hydroclimate changes in the southern Altai Mountains of China5
Variation in humidity and the forcing mechanism in Asian monsoon-influenced regions indicated by hematite/goethite from Baxian Lake, southern China, since AD 8005
Climatic and anthropogenic influences on vegetation changes during the last 5000 years in a seasonal dry tropical forest at the northern limits of the Neotropics5
Climate-induced treeline mortality during the termination of the Little Ice Age in the Greater Yellowstone Ecoregion, USA5
The ‘Little Ice Age’ advance of Nigardsbreen, Norway: A cross-disciplinary revision of the chronological framework5
New evidence supports the continuous development of rice cultivation and early formation of mixed farming in the Middle Han River Valley, China5
Mountain aquatic Isoëtes populations reflect millennial-scale environmental changes in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, Central Europe5
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight5
Historical droughts in Southeast Australia recorded in a New South Wales stalagmite5
Late-Holocene diatom community response to climate driven chemical changes in a small, subarctic lake, Northwest Territories, Canada5
Recent morphological changes of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) mega-delta in the Anthropocene, China: Impact from natural and anthropogenic changes5
Repeated long-term population growth overshoots and recessions among hunter-gatherers5
A 5000-year record of relative sea-level change in New Jersey, USA5
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula5
The mid-Holocene sea-level change in the Arabian Gulf5
Human impact leads to unexpected oligotrophication and deepwater oxygen increase in a Swiss mountain lake5
Early millet cultivation, subsistence diversity, and wild plant use at Neolithic Anle, Lower Yangtze, China5
Paleoceanographic evolution of the Gulf of Tehuantepec (Mexican Pacific) during the last ~6 millennia5
Serving red rice beer to the ancestors ca. 9000 years ago at Xiaohuangshan early Neolithic site in south China5
Mammal tracks record anthropogenic environmental influence in late-Holocene inland dunes of the European Sand Belt, Poland5
Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic material culture and ecology through a multispecies lens5
Relict canals of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: A Middle- to Late-Holocene dryland socio-hydrological system4
Climate-driven Holocene ecohydrological and carbon dynamics from maritime peatlands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada4
Rock varnish record of the African Humid Period in the Lake Turkana basin of East Africa4
Effects of climate change on a subtropical montane peatland over the last two centuries: Evidence from diatom records4
Biomarker insights into a methane-enriched Holocene peat-setting from “Doggerland” (central North Sea)4
Monitoring hydroecology and climatic variability since ~4.6 ka from palynological, sedimentological and environmental perspectives in an Ox-bow lake, Central Ganga Plain, India4
Reconstructed high-resolution forest dynamics and human impacts of the past 2300 years of the Parc national de Mont-Orford, southeastern Québec, Canada4
Buffering new risks? Environmental, social and economic changes in the Turkana Basin during and after the African Humid Period4
Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find4
Is temperature still the most limiting factor for growth in northern boreal forests?4
Holocene relative sea-level changes in the eastern part of Pomeranian Bay and the Szczecin Lagoon, Southern Baltic Sea4
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) dynamics in the Welsh Marches during the mid to late-Holocene4
Late-Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from a lake in the Amazon Rainforest-Tropical Savanna (Cerrado) boundary in Brazil using a multi-proxy approach4
Foodways of the Medieval Tibetans on the Silk Road: New evidence from the Miran Site in Xinjiang4
Late-Holocene hydrological variability from the NW Himalaya and southwestern Tibetan Plateau: Paleo-salinity records from Pangong Tso4
Early Holocene bark-stripping damages as an indicator of large herbivores: Evidence from a submerged Mesolithic landscape in the Haväng area, southern Baltic basin4
Responses of a shallow temperate lake ecosystem to major late-Holocene terrestrial vegetation shifts4
Landscape footprints of peopling and colonisation from the Late Bronze Age to Antiquity in the coastal hinterland of Emporion-Emporiae, NE Iberia.4
Archaeobiogeography of extinct rice rats (Oryzomyini) in the Lesser Antilles during the Ceramic Age (500 BCE–1500 CE)4
Archaeological and stable isotope data reveal patterns of fishing across the food web on California’s Channel Islands4
Organic geochemical and palaeobotanical reconstruction of a late-Holocene archaeological settlement in coastal eastern India4
The effects of dehydration and local soil on parasite recovery: A preliminary paleoparasitological evaluation on experimental coprolites4
Taming Fogo Island: Late-Holocene volcanism, natural fires and land use as recorded in a scoria-cone sediment sequence in Cabo Verde4
Grass phytoliths in surface sediments of the Sunderbans, India and their implications in reconstructing past deltaic environmental changes4
Late-Holocene vegetation and fire history in Western Putorana Plateau (subarctic Siberia, Russia)4
Climate and human induced 2000-year vegetation diversity change in Yunnan, southwestern China4
Plant distribution and modern pollen deposition across an elevation eco-gradient: The lesson learnt from a case study in the Italian Alps4
Evidence for the Little Ice Age in upland northwestern Europe: Multiproxy climate data from three blanket mires in northern England4
Phytoliths as an indicator of change in vegetation related to the huge volcanic eruption at 7.3 ka in the southernmost part of Kyushu, southern Japan4
Small peatland with a big story: 600-year paleoecological and historical data from a kettle-hole peatland in Western Russia4
Establishment and functioning of the savanna marshes of the Lopé National Park in Gabon since the termination of the African humid period and the arrival of humans 2500 years ago4
Agricultural practices in India during the Holocene: A pollen view point and a critical appraisal4
Settlement, landscape and land-use change at a Pictish Elite Centre: Assessing the palaeoecological record for economic continuity and social change at Rhynie in NE Scotland4
Bulls for sacrifice, cows for work? Morphometric models suggest that female cattle were used for traction in the Chinese Bronze Age Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300–1046 BCE)4
Domestication and microbiome4
Managing wilderness? Holocene-scale, human-related disturbance dynamics as revealed in a remote, forested area in the Czech Republic4
The role of fire disturbances, human activities and climate change for long-term forest dynamics in upper-montane forests of the central Dinaric Alps4
The mid-6th century AD enigmatic mega earthquake and tsunami in central Greece: a seismotectonic, archeological, and historical reexamination4
Basin-specific records of lake oligotrophication during the middle-to-late Holocene in boreal northeast Ontario, Canada4
Precipitation reconstruction since the last deglacial based on the stable carbon isotopic composition of a loess section in western Central Asia4
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