Abstract: Climatic change, and associated environmental changes, are key challenges facing the world today, and are altering the future of our planet and its inhabitants. Climatic and environmental shifts also had profound effects on human societies in the past, and archaeology has a key role in helping us understand how humans, animals and the broader ecosystem responds and adapts to environmental change. Understanding human-environmental interactions on local, regional, and global scales is therefore not only a key part of better understanding the past, but also for informing the present. A significant area to explore is the palaeoecology of archaeologically-important prey-species, both as a means of more accurately reconstructing ancient landscapes and ecosystems, but also for better understanding past human activity, landscape use and faunal resource exploitation. New biomolecular approaches, and particularly isotope zooarchaeology, have enhanced our ability to reconstruct past ecosystem dynamics, paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions, and the economic strategies that humans used to cope with them. However, the integration of multiple lines of evidence and methodologies remains the most powerful approach towards studying environmental change, resilience and adaptation in the past, not only for the benefit of archaeologists but other specialists. This special section of Journal of Archaeological Science Reports draws together papers using a range of methodologies to understand past human interactions with their environments, from Alaska, to Coastal Brazil, Europe and beyond. Studies are on a range of scales, from individual sites to big data, multi-site analyses, and encompass periods from Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Given the multi-faceted nature of the human past, archaeologists need to use a broad range of datasets to best understand environmental change and its impact on humans and animals. By drawing on inter-disciplinary specialisations and working alongside experts from other fields it will be possible to gain a more integrated and complete understanding of the ecological, economic, social and cultural effects of climatic and environmental changes on past populations.
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Interpreting the Schöningen 13II-4 butchery sequence using the Harris Matrix - Artículo de Revista
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Highlighting the role of carnivores as a multifunctional resource among the Middle Magdalenian: The case of the Lower Galley of La Garma (Cantabria, Spain) - Artículo de Revista
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Los Canes Mesolithic burials: archaeothanatology - Artículo de Revista
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Shell tools and productive strategies of hunter-gatherer groups: Some reflections from a use-wear analysis at the Balma del Gai site (Barcelona, Spain) - Artículo de Revista
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Mesolithic dwelling structures: from methodological approaches to archaeological interpretation - Artículo de Revista
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Gold-bearing Plio-Quaternary deposits: Insights from airborne LiDAR technology into the landscape evolution during the early Roman mining works in north-west Spain - Artículo de Revista
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Multi-Isotope investigations of ungulate bones and teeth from El Castillo and Covalejos caves (Cantabria, Spain): Implications for paleoenvironment reconstructions across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition - Artículo de Revista
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Isotopic and zooarchaeological approaches towards understanding aquatic resource use in human economies and animal management in the prehistoric Scottish North Atlantic Islands - Artículo de Revista
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Woodworking sites from the Late Paleolithic of South Arabia: Functional
and technological analysis of burins from Dhofar, Oman - Artículo de Revista
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Birds of prey and humans in prehistoric Europe: A view from El Mirón Cave, Cantabria (Spain) - Artículo de Revista
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An unknown "classic cave": Re-evaluation of El Salitre (Ajanedo, Cantabria, Spain) rock art with 3D digital recording methodologies - Artículo de Revista
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The cave of Atxurra: A new major Magdalenian rock art sanctuary in Northern Spain - Artículo de Revista
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New insights into the European Palaeolithic Art: Symbolic interactions in the Bay of Biscay - Artículo de Revista
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Landscape dynamics and human impact on high-mountain woodlands in the western Spanish Central System during the last three millennia - Artículo de Revista
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Palaeoenvironmental and chronological context of human occupations at El Cierro Cave (Northern Spain) during the transition from the late Upper Pleistocene to the early Holocene - Artículo de Revista
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New data for the late Upper Palaeolithic in the Cantabrian region: Arangas Cave (Cabrales, Asturias, Spain) - Artículo de Revista
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Early farmers, megalithic builders and the shaping of the cultural landscapes during the Holocene in Northern Iberian mountains. A palaeoenvironmental perspective - Artículo de Revista
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Mid-late Holocene environmental and cultural dynamics at the south-west tip of Europe (Doñana National Park, SW Iberia, Spain) - Artículo de Revista
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Revisiting Hornos de la Peña 100 years after - Artículo de Revista
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Sporadic occupation in Armiña cave during the Upper Magdalenian: What for? - Artículo de Revista
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Environment and subsistence strategies at La Viña rock shelter and Llonin cave Asturias, Spain) during MIS3 - Artículo de Revista
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Diet, mobility and death of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups of the Cantabrian Region (northern Spain). A multidisciplinary approach towards studying the Los Avellanos I and II burial caves - Artículo de Revista
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Modelled clay animals in Aitzbitarte IV Cave: A unique Palaeolithic rock art site in the Cantabrian Region - Artículo de Revista
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The Incidence of Potential Insolation on Settlement Dynamics and Site Location Preferences: A Case Study From the Cantabrian Late Palaeolithic - Artículo de Revista
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Evaluating the incidence of hydrological processes during site formation through orientation analysis. A case study of the middle Palaeolithic Lakeland site of Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany) - Artículo de Revista
