Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

Recent papers from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

1. Global origins of tuna and billfish fisheries reveal the transition from coastal access to oceanic exploitationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
2. Eating under Christian rule: isotopic evidence for food access and resilience among a medieval Muslim minority in IberiaAntiquity · 2026
3. Highlights from an early base camp in Beringia 13,800 years ago: Shég’ Xdaltth’í’ and the Late Pleistocene peopling of AlaskaScience Advances · 2026
4. Multidisciplinary insights into Late Pleistocene-Holocene palaeoenvironment at the archaeo-palaeontological Loltún Cave site in Yucatán, Mexiconpj Palaeoecosystems · 2026
5. From wheels to systems: Characterizing automobility as technosphereThe Anthropocene Review · 2026
6. Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use changeNature · 2026
7. Economic succession: an ecology-informed diagnostic framework for sustainable urban transformationFrontiers in Sustainable Cities · 2026
8. Alicia R. Ventresca-Miller. 2026. Domesticated: how cultivated species altered ancient Silk Road societies. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19-778594-2 hardback £68 online OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197785973.001.0001Antiquity · 2026
9. Integrated technological and ZooMS analysis of late chalcolithic osseous industry from Yeghegis-1 (Armenia)Archaeological Research in Asia · 2026
10. Past rapid spread of introduced livestock coincided with vegetation clearance on MadagascarProceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2026
11. Contextualising early hominin environments: A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the earliest Oldowan at Nyayanga, western KenyaQuaternary Science Reviews · 2026
12. African elephants putatively self-medicate with medicinal plants in the Mount Elgon region, KenyaScientific Reports · 2026
13. Resolving the biome debate: ecological and palaeo‐data concur that the extensive tree‐limited grassy biomes of central and north‐western Madagascar are largely anthropogenicBiological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
14. Stable isotope insights into endemic animal diets in pre-colonial JamaicaJournal of Archaeological Science Reports · 2026
15. The emergence of Neolithic economies at Chogha Golan in the western foothills of the Zagros Mountains, IranQuaternary Science Reviews · 2026
16. Detectability of Looting Holes in Very High‐Resolution SAR ImagesArchaeological Prospection · 2026
17. Enhancement of Circular Dichroism in Chiral Dielectric Metasurfaces by Ion Beam IrradiationAdvanced Optical Materials · 2026
18. Insights Into the Nature of Quantum Emitters in Electron‐Irradiated Hexagonal Boron NitrideAdvanced Science · 2026
19. Tracing the evolution and diversity of human parvovirus B19 across human historyCurrent Biology · 2026
20. A modern phytolith reference collection for selected native Australian plants: Implications for vegetation reconstructionAnnals of Botany · 2026