This study explores how droughts influenced economic vulnerability, resilience, and social conflicts in the Andes of Capricorn (1000-1500 CE), highlighting regional differences before Inca integration
Moving into the Mountains: Tok stori of the occupation, adaptation and innovations that occur in the human history of the New Guinea Highlands.
The Highlands of New Guinea show one of the earliest movements of modern humans into montane environments, including the independent development of agriculture post LGM.
Core or Periphery? Human utilization of the Kashmir Himalayas from Antiquity to Early-Historic period
Contrary to the perception of an isolated periphery, the Kashmir Himalayas thrived as a dynamic hub, fostering the exchange of people, goods, and ideas from pre-history to historic times.
Living in Mountain Areas in Protohistory: New Approaches to Territorial Analysis in Central Italy.
This study examines Late Bronze Age upland settlements in Central Italy using LiDAR and archaeological data to analyze settlement patterns, defense strategies, and new methodological approaches.
Between Highlands and Lowlands: Settlement Dynamics and Cultural Perceptions in the Alpine Landscape of Alpe Cravariola (Italy – VB)
The study of Alpe Cravariola explores the link between high-altitude pastures and valley villages through economic networks, seasonal mobility, and land management, shaping alpine settlement dynamics.
How to Live the High Life – Past Interaction and Connection with the Afroalpine (Bale Mountains, SE Ethiopia)
Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains, an Afroalpine ecozone, offer insights into prehistoric human networks across varying Middle and Later Stone Age environments.
Interactions between highlands and coast during Middle Holocene (ca. 7,000 – 3500 BP) in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile, South-Central Andes)
We want to account for the particularities and evolution of interactions between highlands and coast throughout the Middle Holocene in the Atacama Desert
Engraved and ochre art from the Telem Fezza cave (Tassili-Tan-Ahaggar, Central Sahara, Algeria)
The walls of this cave and other small rock shelters in the vicinity feature numerous rock figures, mainly from the pastoral period, but we have also noted other wild animal figures.
Ancient Subsistence Technologies in an Andean/Amazonian Transition Zone
I report on a range of subsistence activities, including the introduction of lowland domesticates, documented at the Muyuksha archaeological site during and following the Preceramic Period.
A 500-year climate-vegetation cycle recorded in mountainous northeast Asia over the past 20,000 years
This study reveals a stable 500-year climate-vegetation-human cycle in Northeast Asia over the past 20,000 years, driven by monsoon intensity, vegetation shifts, and prehistoric cultural development.