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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spatial distribution and environmental significance of modern organic carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in the source area of the Yellow River: A case study of Gyaring Lake and Ngoring Lake33
The barn owl as an accumulator of bone remains in central western Argentina: multi-taxa neo-taphonomic approach and implications for Holocene contexts31
Tracing the early dispersal of reindeer in southern Sweden: Chronology, habitat, and human interaction ( c . 12,000–7000 BCE)23
Methodological refinement and cartography of environmental history scholarship: Intellectual trajectories, thematic evolution, and global dynamics (1968–2025)22
Reconstruction of paleoclimate and ecosystem changes in Western Iran using cave sediments from the Mid-Holocene Epoch (Northgrippian Age)20
Mid to Late-Holocene environmental dynamics recorded in Lake Pup Lagoon, East Antarctica: Insights from environmental magnetism and biogeochemical proxies18
Holocene relative sea-level changes in northwest Ireland: An empirical test for glacial isostatic adjustment models18
Emergence of fibrecraft specialization 8000 years ago in early Neolithic North China18
Low-frequency patterns in Late-Holocene tree-ring records from northern Fennoscandia17
Leaving home: Technological and landscape knowledge as resilience at pre-Holocene Kharaneh IV, Azraq Basin, Jordan17
Changing with the times: From agricultural potential to spatially explicit reconstructions of past land use15
Settling dust sources: Clay minerals, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and εNd in Petra (Jordan) and the northern Nege15
A record of change in oyster environment through high-resolution geochemical analysis of Late-Holocene sediments from Coastal Ghana15
Remnant peat deposit provides clues to the inundated cultural landscapes of Kepa Kurl, southwestern Australia14
On the body mass of Cantabrian brown bears: Misinterpretation of data in Fidalgo et al. (2025)14
Tracing adaptive cycles and resilience strategies within the Sagalassos settlement record, SW Türkiye13
Famine, disasters, and climate change: A case study of Jiangsu, China, in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD)13
A documentary record of earthquake-induced floods and risk assessment in the lower Yellow River during the past 700 years12
Holocene capuchin-monkey stone tool deposits shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites from the Pleistocene of Brazil12
Holocene book review: Iceland: Classic Geology in Europe 312
Interaction of environmental change and social evolution in pre-industrial East Asia: An introduction to the special issue12
Legacy archaeology: Aboriginal subsistence response to Holocene environmental changes using faunal evidence from archaeological sites on the Lower Murray, South Australia11
Small mammal records from Limay river basin (Northwestern Patagonia) in the Anthropocene from a taphonomical and paleoecological perspective11
Flax use in ancient China: Archaeobotany evidence from the Northwest China11
Holocene book review: Caves: Processes, Development, and Management11
Holocene aeolian-fluvial interactions patterns and their response to climate changes in the Paiku Co basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau11
In Memoriam: Alastair George Dawson (1952–2025)11
Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico11
Continuity and discontinuity at the burial site of Roonka, Murray Gorge, South Australia11
Stages of palaeoenvironmental evolution, climate and sea level change of the Niger Delta, east Equatorial Atlantic: Novelty from elemental tracers, sedimentary facies and pollen records11
Vegetation dynamics and drivers of change in the Central Highlands of Madagascar during the last 6300 years: Pre- and post-human settlement11
SedaDNA shows that transhumance of domestic herbivores has enhanced plant diversity over the Holocene in the Eastern European Alps11
Relative base level control on the evolution of a Holocene lagoon system and its impact on the interpretation of the relative sea level curve (southernmost Brazil)11
Facing Early Bronze Age climate change in South East Arabia: New data from the hydraulic structures of Salūt-ST1, Central Oman: A geoarchaeological perspective11
Plant distribution and modern pollen deposition across an elevation eco-gradient: The lesson learnt from a case study in the Italian Alps10
Forest ecosystem development in European nemoreal-boreal forest (NE Poland) over the last 2200 years: Impact of human activity and climate change10
Coastal flooding in Kołobrzeg (Kolberg) area, southern Baltic Sea, in the light of historical and geological data10
Carious lesions as evidence for different adaptation strategies during the middle-late Holocene in the Gansu region, northwest China10
Vegetation changes and sediment dynamics in the Lake Alaotra region, central Madagascar10
Tracing climate and human-driven erosional activity in the Transylvania lowlands (Central-Eastern Europe) during the Holocene10
Was calcareous tufa deposition related to the forest cover during the Holocene? A GIS investigation10
Persistence of a wind-driven fire regime in Mediterranean France over the past 8200 years revealed by a marine paleoecological record9
Comparison of simulated and proxy-based climate reconstructions for Mid-Holocene Europe reveals high uncertainty9
Forest stability during the Holocene in Santa Catarina, southern Brazil revealed by small mammals from Gruta do Presépio9
Holocene book review: Arctic Ecology9
3000 Years of past regional and local land-use and land-cover change in the southeastern Swedish coastal area: Early human-induced increases in landscape openness as a potential nutrient source to the9
Zooarchaeological perspectives in the framework of the Anthropocene: Contributions to ecological, environmental and conservation studies from South America9
Environmental magnetic records derived from lacustrine sediments in the Western Guangdong Province, China: Implications for Late-Holocene climatic/environmental changes9
Holocene climate–vegetation–land use interactions in the mesomediterranean coastlands of northern Greece9
New crop stable isotope evidence reveals the impact of the 3.2 ka rapid climate event on arable agricultural production at late Bronze Age – Iron Age Hattuşa, Central Anatolia9
The role of fire disturbances, human activities and climate change for long-term forest dynamics in upper-montane forests of the central Dinaric Alps8
Rapid laminated clastic alluviation associated with increased Little Ice Age flooding co-driven by climate variability and historic land-use in the middle Severn catchment, UK8
Reconstruction of paleoclimatic changes in the Sebkha environment: A case study of Sebkha El-Guettiate (Southeast Tunisia)8
Modern analogs for understanding pollen-vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean mosaic landscape (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)8
Diatom-based paleoproductivity and climate change record of the Gulf of Tehuantepec (Eastern Tropical Pacific) during the last ~500 years8
Coprolite diversity from the archeological site Gruta Do Gentio Ll, Unaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil8
Late-Holocene fynbos-forest dynamics in Orange Kloof, Table Mountain National Park, South Africa8
An 11,000 year record of plant community stability and paludification in a patterned rich fen in northeastern Alberta, Canada7
An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research7
Ostracod palaeolimnology as an indicator of past human–environment interactions in Chełm Hills, south-eastern Poland7
Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record7
Historical grassland fire events in southern Germany investigated by soil charcoal content7
High-resolution forest and fire dynamics from Fish Lake, New Brunswick, Canada, during the last millennium7
Intensified Late-Holocene aeolian activity in Vesterålen, northern Norway – increased storminess or human impact?7
Reconstructing Late-Holocene relative sea level using mangrove sediments in Singapore7
Using x-ray fluorescence to identify Mazama ash in the Lake Bonneville basin, Utah, USA7
Archival insights into vulnerability and risk management during the early Spanish colonial period (1598–1680 AD) in New Mexico7
High-resolution water temperature and salinity evolutions and associated drivers of the North Yellow Sea during the Late-Holocene7
Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight6
The evolution of meandering and anabranching rivers in postglacial and loess landscapes of Europe6
Archaeological and stable isotope data reveal patterns of fishing across the food web on California’s Channel Islands6
Different hydrological controls causing variable rates of Holocene peat growth in a lowland valley system, north-eastern Netherlands; implications for valley peatland restoration6
Living with risk in drylands: Archaeological perspectives6
Shell middens and soil terraces as archives of human-littoral interactions since the first settlement of northwestern Tenerife, the Canary Islands6
Initiation of delta formation and subsequent fluvial sedimentation in the upper delta plain: A case study from the Kiso River delta, central Japan6
Understanding long-term human ecodynamics through the lens of ecosystem collapse6
Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)6
Corrigendum to “Reconstructing monsoon variability during the Late Holocene at Ia Bang Lake, Central Highlands of Vietnam”6
Central Argentina vegetation characteristics linked to extinct megafauna and some implications on human populations6
Climatic and environmental changes since last deglaciation in the steppe region of northern China and their impact on early population survival patterns6
A 1300-year multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the northwest Putorana Plateau (Russian Subarctic): environmental changes, vegetation dynamics and fire history6
Postglacial establishment and expansion of marginal populations of sugar maple in western Québec, Canada: Palynological detection and interactions with fire, climate and successional processes6
Increased North Atlantic dust deposition linked to Holocene Icelandic glacier fluctuations6
Geochemical records of mudflat sediments from southern Saurashtra, Western India: Implications for Holocene climate and global teleconnection6
The 4.2 ka BP event in western Anatolia: Tracing the impact of climatic change6
Micro-morphometry of cereal and non-cereal pollen using LM, CLSM and FESEM: Implications for past anthropogenic activities in the Central Ganga Plain India6
A comprehensive exposure-age dating approach to interpreting complex glacial and periglacial landscapes: The landform mosaic of Alnesdalen, a Norwegian alpine drainage basin6
Biomarker insights into a methane-enriched Holocene peat-setting from “Doggerland” (central North Sea)6
Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia6
Marine shellfish exploitation as a means of reducing vulnerability to resource uncertainty in southern coastal Peru (200 BCE–150 CE)6
MicroCT analysis reveals insights into the beginning of rice domestication in the Lower Yangtze during the 10th millennium BP6
Diachronic evolution in subsistence strategies of ancient humans from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age in the Western Liaohe River Basin and its influencing factors6
Radiocarbon sampling efforts for high-precision lake sediment chronologies6
Lack of data and misperception of open science limit the scope of Cantabrian brown bear body mass studies, not misinterpretation of results: Reply to comment by García-Vázquez (2025)6
Late Holocene rainfall dynamics in southeastern Brazil linked to monsoon variability: Terrigenous inputs and vegetation shifts influenced by the South Atlantic Convergence Zone activity6
Imprints of Holocene aridity variability in the Aegean Sea and interconnections with north-latitude areas5
An archaeobotanical and stable isotope approach to changing agricultural practices in the NW Mediterranean region around 4000 BC5
Late-Holocene palaeoecological reconstruction of Southern Hemisphere Westerlies variability on Subantarctic Macquarie Island5
Glacier retreat from the Little Ice Age to the year 2020 in the eastern sector of the Fuegian Andes, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina5
Disparate impacts of the Eldgjá and Laki flood-lava eruptions5
Mid- to Late-Holocene coastal morphological evolution, vegetation history and land-use changes of the Porto Gulf UNESCO World Heritage site and its surroundings (NW Corsica Island, Western Mediterrane5
Long-term shoreline evolution (Late-Holocene – 2018) of the Channel 15 coast (Samborombón bay, NE – Buenos Aires province, Argentina)5
Holocene book review: Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error HannahMichael, Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2021; 240 pp.: IS5
Methodologies for the identification of historic forest pathogen dynamics5
The impact of volcanism on Scandinavian climate and human societies during the Holocene: Insights into the Fimbulwinter eruptions (536/540 AD)5
Sources of coal remains from the Jartai Pass Site in Nilka County, Xinjiang, China5
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation composition and fire regimes in the subalpine western Nanling Mountains in subtropic China5
Holocene book review: Landscapes and Landforms of Scotland (World Geomorphological Landscapes book series)5
Comparing the impact of live-tree versus historic-timber data on palaeoenvironmental inferences in tree-ring science, eastern North America5
The geoarchaeological investigation on the defunctionalisation of an Assyrian canals system reveals Late-Holocene land use transitions in Northern Mesopotamia5
Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula5
Archaeobotanical data from the Sabor Valley reveal shifting moments in landscape and agriculture in NW Iberia during the Holocene5
The Global Humanization Event (GHE)5
Lowstand lake conditions in NW Anatolia during the Little Ice Age: Multi-proxy evidence from Lake Sünnet5
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph depositional patterns in Kaziranga National Park, India: Implications for palaeoecology and palaeoherbivory analysis5
Hydrological changes and landform evolution since the Bølling-Allerød interstadial in the Eastern Great Rann of Kachchh, India5
A Late-Holocene pollen record from the coastal Mkhuze swamp, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa5
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE5
Holocene environmental evolution and its relationship with human culture in the Luoyang area, Central China5
Following the spores: insights from mosses, pollen traps, and dung into coprophilous fungal spore deposition4
Multiproxy analysis for the paleobiogeographical reconstruction of the relict forests of the Serranía de Ronda during the Holocene (Baetic System, Spain)4
Holocene chemostratigraphy of spring sediments in Range Creek Canyon, Utah, USA4
Subsistence strategies and climate change as key factors in the vicinity of the Great Wall in northern China from 500 BCE4
Regional and local drivers of vegetation and humidity dynamics in Western Siberia during the Holocene: A case study of Mukhrino mire4
Serving red rice beer to the ancestors ca. 9000 years ago at Xiaohuangshan early Neolithic site in south China4
Aboriginal earth mounds of the Calperum Floodplain (Murray Darling Basin, South Australia): New radiocarbon dates, sediment analyses and syntheses, and implications for behavioural change4
Inter-annual and intra-annual tree-ring oxygen isotope signals in response to monsoon rainfall in northwestern Thailand4
Plant dependency and risk management in the Andean Puna during the Mid to Late-Holocene4
Alluvial-lacustrine record of Mid- to Late-Holocene moisture variations trend verified by multiple proxies in the middle and lower reaches of the Hutubi River, northwest China4
Late Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Northern Greater Caucasus (Russia) inferred from 10 Be cosmic ray exposure moraine dating4
Early millet cultivation, subsistence diversity, and wild plant use at Neolithic Anle, Lower Yangtze, China4
Agricultural practices in India during the Holocene: A pollen view point and a critical appraisal4
Late-Holocene maize cultivation, fire, and forest change at Lake Ayauchi, Amazonian Ecuador4
Wildfire-induced soil erosion in northern Finland watersheds4
Hydrological evolution of a shallow lake in the semiarid Fuegian steppe, southern Argentina, during the last ~7000 years based on multiproxy data4
Mediterranean-like “fall dump” events in the Baltic Sea4
Climate change, site formation, and indigenous use of coastlines in Barbuda4
Holocene seasonal temperature reconstruction based on branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) records from different regions in China4
The significance of Atlantic Water routing in the Nordic Seas: The Holocene perspective4
Archaeobotanical evidence of plant cultivation from the Sanbaopi site in south-western Taiwan during the Late Neolithic and Metal Age4
Local-scale environmental gradients in ‘snail-shell’ stable isotopes from Holocene Jordanian archaeological sites4
Paleoenvironmental study of the Late Preclassic period in the Northern Mesoamerican Frontier4
Half of the soil erosion in the Alps during the Holocene is explained by transient erosion crises as a consequence of rapid human land clearing4
Testing tree-ring cellulose δ 18 O with water isotopes for Holocene lake δ 18 O interpretations in the central Rocky Mountains USA4
8000 Years of morphometric evolution of sheep, goat and pig in the northwestern Mediterranean basin4
Diet breadth and biodiversity in the pre-hispanic South-Central Andes (Western South America) during the Holocene: An exploratory analysis and review4
Evaluating the Indian Summer Monsoon intensity using archeological seeds from early–late historic Vidarbha, Central India4
Lithic technology before and after the Storegga tsunami (8200 cal BP): Dissolving large-scale regional trends to identify social impact of crisis in western Norway4
Ötzi, 30 years on: A reappraisal of the depositional and post-depositional history of the find4
Gastrointestinal parasite diversity of South American camelids and its relationship with ancient Andean human populations from early Holocene to historical times in Southern Puna, Argentina4
Holocene glacial evolution in Quingaussarsuaq Peninsula (Central–West Greenland)4
ENSO-related centennial and millennial-scale hydroclimate changes recorded from Lake Xiaolongchi in arid Central Asia over the past 8000 years4
Holocene histories of biome stability in northern Amazonian savannas4
Building resilience from risk: Interactions across ENSO, local environment, and farming systems on the desert north coast of Peru (1100BC–AD1460)4
Changes in the vegetation and water cycle of the Ecuadorian páramo during the last 5000 years4
A high-resolution record of Mid- to Late-Holocene environmental changes from a land-locked lake in Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica4
Late-Holocene changes in vegetation and fire within a forest refuge in the Araripe region, northeastern Brazil4
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Improved chronological constraints for Holocene rock glacier activity in the Ben Ohau Range, Southern Alps/New Zealand4
How much organic carbon have UK lakes stored in the Holocene? A preliminary estimate4
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