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abstract

  • A synthetic history of human land use Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 to 8000 years ago. Through a synthetic collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled a comprehensive picture of the trajectory of human land use worldwide during the Holocene (see the Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed the face of Earth earlier and to a greater extent than has been widely appreciated, a transformation that was essentially global by 3000 years before the present. Science , this issue p. 897 ; see also p. 865

authors

  • Stephens, Lucas
  • Fuller, Dorian
  • Boivin, Nicole
  • Rick, Torben
  • Gauthier, Nicolas
  • Kay, Andrea
  • Marwick, Ben
  • Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda
  • Barton, C Michael
  • Denham, Tim
  • Douglass, Kristina
  • Driver, Jonathan
  • Janz, Lisa
  • Roberts, Patrick
  • Rogers, J Daniel
  • Thakar, Heather
  • Altaweel, Mark
  • Johnson, Amber L
  • Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta
  • Aldenderfer, Mark
  • Archila, Sonia
  • Artioli, Gilberto
  • Bale, Martin T
  • Beach, Timothy
  • Borrell, Ferran
  • Braje, Todd
  • Buckland, Philip I
  • Jiménez Cano, Nayeli Guadalupe
  • Capriles, José M
  • Diez Castillo, Agustín
  • Çilingiroğlu, Çiler
  • Negus Cleary, Michelle
  • Conolly, James
  • Coutros, Peter R
  • Covey, R Alan
  • Cremaschi, Mauro
  • Crowther, Alison
  • Der, Lindsay
  • di Lernia, Savino
  • Doershuk, John F
  • Doolittle, William E
  • Edwards, Kevin J
  • Erlandson, Jon M
  • Evans, Damian
  • Fairbairn, Andrew
  • Faulkner, Patrick
  • Feinman, Gary
  • Fernandes, Ricardo
  • Fitzpatrick, Scott M
  • Fyfe, Ralph
  • Garcea, Elena
  • Goldstein, Steve
  • Goodman, Reed Charles
  • Dalpoim Guedes, Jade
  • Herrmann, Jason
  • Hiscock, Peter
  • Hommel, Peter
  • Horsburgh, K Ann
  • Hritz, Carrie
  • Ives, John W
  • Junno, Aripekka
  • Kahn, Jennifer G
  • Kaufman, Brett
  • Kearns, Catherine
  • Kidder, Tristram R
  • Lanoë, François
  • Lawrence, Dan
  • Lee, Gyoung-Ah
  • Levin, Maureece J
  • Lindskoug, Henrik B
  • López-Sáez, José Antonio
  • Macrae, Scott
  • Marchant, Rob
  • Marston, John M
  • McClure, Sarah
  • McCoy, Mark D
  • Miller, Alicia Ventresca
  • Morrison, Michael
  • Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Giedre
  • Müller, Johannes
  • Nayak, Ayushi
  • Noerwidi, Sofwan
  • Peres, Tanya M
  • Peterson, Christian E
  • Proctor, Lucas
  • Randall, Asa R
  • Renette, Steve
  • Robbins Schug, Gwen
  • Ryzewski, Krysta
  • Saini, Rakesh
  • Scheinsohn, Vivian
  • Schmidt, Peter
  • Sebillaud, Pauline
  • Seitsonen, Oula
  • Simpson, Ian A
  • Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz
  • Speakman, Robert J
  • Spengler, Robert N
  • Steffen, Martina L
  • Storozum, Michael J
  • Strickland, Keir M
  • Thompson, Jessica
  • Thurston, TL
  • Ulm, Sean
  • Ustunkaya, M Cemre
  • Welker, Martin H
  • West, Catherine
  • Williams, Patrick Ryan
  • Wright, David K
  • Wright, Nathan
  • Zahir, Muhammad
  • Zerboni, Andrea
  • Beaudoin, Ella
  • Munevar Garcia, Santiago
  • Powell, Jeremy
  • Thornton, Alexa
  • Kaplan, Jed O
  • Gaillard, Marie-José
  • Klein Goldewijk, Kees
  • Ellis, Erle

publication date

  • August 30, 2019