MPI GEA Publications

García-Escárzaga, A.; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I.; Marín, A.; Zapata, J.; Moreno-Márquez, A.; Clarke, L. J.; Milano, S.; Nehrke, G.; Castellón-Vargas, R.; Roberts, P. et al.; Zilhão, J.; Colonese, A. C.: Seasonal shellfish exploitation by Neanderthals 115,000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (22), e2531880123, pp. 1 - 7 (2026)

Shen, H.; Cong, D.; Jia, P. W.; Spengler III, R. N.; Li, X.; Betts, A.; Zhou, X.; Li, X.: Ancient human-environment interactions in the Tianshan mountains: wood charcoal evidence from Adunqiaolu, Western China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18 (6), 145 (2026)

Bourgon, N.; Oelze, M.; Amano, N.; Wedage, O.; Perera, N.; Roberts, P.: Pre-agricultural intensification of plant use in Pleistocene Sri Lankan rainforests. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2026, 03082-6 (2026)

Miller, J.; Shipton, C.; Kourampas, N.; Parés, J. M.; Vonhof, H.; Shoaee, M. J.; Cueva-Temprana, A.; Harding, M.; Crowther, A.; Jurkenas, D. et al.; Mutoro, D.; Cerassoni, J. N.; Fernandes, R.; Maroma, C.; Ndiema, E.; Boivin, N. L.; Petraglia, M. D.: Cave morphology and human-mediated sediment deposition: Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the cave floor at Panga ya Saidi, coastal Kenya. PLOS ONE 21 (5), e0347491 (2026)

Alinam, Z.; Celani, G.: Enhancing wayfinding in science & technology parks: insights from visual attention modeling. Planning practice & research, 2672531 (2026)

Dixon, T.; Rudd, R.; Kemp, J.; Marx, S.; Moss, P.; Hua, Q.; Bird, M.; Hall, P. A.; McGowan, H.: Variability in the southern margin of the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon since 46 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 690, 113678, pp. 1 - 18 (2026)

Pereira, L. M.; Gibson, M. F.; Abrams, J. F.; Brutschin, E.; Cardenas, J. C.; Cheung, W. W.L.; Claudet, J.; Cornell, S. E.; Daioglou, V.; Durán, A. P. et al.; Gomez-Baggethun, E.; Harrison, P. A.; Hebden, S.; Johnson, J. A.; Jouffray, J.-B.; Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, S.; Keys, P. W.; Kim, H.; Kok, M. T.J.; Lundquist, C. J.; Lenton, T. M.; Mason-D’Croz, D.; McElwee, P.; Munera-Roldan, C.; Nakicenovic, N.; Norström, A. V.; Nyasulu, M. K.; Peterson, G. D.; Pinho, P.; Popp, A.; Riahi, K.; Sumaila, U. R.; Tobian, A.; Winkelmann, R.; Wunderling, N.; van Vuuren, D.; Vervoort, J.; Zimm, C.: Solving science conundrums in the climate-nature-equity polycrisis with integrated transformative scenarios. One Earth 9 (5), 101710 (2026)

Salgado-Garrido, H. E.; Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J.; de la Cruz-Fernández, A.; López-Martínez, R.; Barba-Meinecke, H.; Huchím-Herrera, J.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; Solís-Torres, O. R.: Hypogenetic morphologies and morphometric data reveal new insights into the speleogenesis of the Loltún Cave, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Geomorphology 501, 110258, pp. 1 - 16 (2026)

Shutters, S. T.; Dhein, K.: Complex systems vs. complex adaptive systems: why the difference matters. Frontiers in complex systems 4, 1808634 (2026)

Spengler III, R. N.; Oliveira, H. R. C.: Invited reply: Response to "Towards a universal definition of ‘domestication’". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 381 (1950), 20260095 (2026)

Power, R. C.; Bleasdale, M.; Fane, S.; Wilmsen, E. N.: Dietary practices in Iron Age northern and central Botswana: microbotanical evidence from dental calculus. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18 (6), 134 (2026)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Arbach-Benz, D.; Shoaee, M. J.; Tang, L.; Amano, N.; Nakamura, Y.; Paetz, C.; Nganyalila, A. M.; Mwambwiga, A. et al.; Kingi, M.; Mercader, J.; Nasab, H. V.; Lu, H.; Spengler III, R. N.; Larsen, T.; Wang, Y.: Regional variability in faecal bile acids and its implications for species identification in archaeology. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 18 (6), 133 (2026)

Li, K.; Yin, Z.; Zhang, L.; Spengler III, R. N.; Wang, Y.; Qin, X.; Xu, B.; Gu, Z.; Mu, G.; Wu, Y. et al.; Tian, X.; Wei, D.; Wang, C.; Shao, H.; Jia, H.; Li, W.; Feng, J.; Plunkett, G.; Liu, J.: Reduction of Silk Road exchange corresponds with a decrease in hydraulic output of major dryland rivers in northwest China. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 33 (3), 55 (2026)

Huber, B.; Pollet, O.; Kandil, S. B.; Graen, D.; Spanneut, L.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Mas-Normand, L.; Joliot, C.; Roche, E.; Burri, S. et al.; Durand, A.; Regert, M.; Fernandes, R.; Pickett, J. A.; Culioli, G.; Devièse, T.: An archaeo-metabolomics approach for identifying cedar tar in archaeological samples: differentiating plant products and production processes. Scientific Reports 16 (1), 14280 (2026)

Zanchetta, G.; Isola, I.; Hu, H.-M.; Bini, M.; Columbu, A.; Drysdale, R.; Luppichini, M.; Natali, S.; Regattieri, E.; Shen, C.-C. et al.; De Santis, N.; Hellstrom, J.; Pennos, C.; Natale, P.; Masi, A.; Wagner, B.; Milevski, I.; Temovski, M.; Izdebski, A.: The medieval climate anomaly in the Balkans: evidence from Golubarnica Cave in the Jakupica Massif (North Macedonia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 695, 113852 (2026)

Forootani, A.; Khosravi, M.: Compact transformer variants for synthetic time series forecasting. Neurocomputing 677, 133140, pp. 1 - 31 (2026)

Poe, J.; Huntzinger, D.; Riley, W. J.; Wells, J. M.; Schuur, E. A. G.; Schwalm, C.; Berner, L. T.; Rodenhizer, H.; Bouskill, N. J.; Brovkin, V. et al.; Burke, E. J.; Ciais, P.; Georgievski, G.; Gustafson, A.; Lawrence, D. M.; MacDougall, A. H.; Mekonnen, Z. A.; Melton, J. R.; Meyer, G.; Pongracz, A.; Qiu, C.; Sulman, B. N.; Swenson, S. C.; Tao, J.; Wårlind, D.; Xi, Y.; Yuan, F.; Zhu, Q.; Schädel, C.: Informing robust functional relationship benchmarks: an evaluation of the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration across the Arctic-Boreal region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 131 (5), e2025JG009307 (2026)

Shen, R.; Ebinghaus, R.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Ratcliffe, N.; Larsen, T.: Oceanographic regime and foraging behaviour structure compound-specific PFAS variability in arctic-atlantic guillemots. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology 31, 100707, pp. 1 - 13 (2026)

Spengler III, R. N.: Integrating ecological release into the domestication equation. Quaternary Science Reviews 379, 109875, pp. 1 - 14 (2026)

Milner, A. M.; McKeown, M. M.; Ruwaimana, M.; Gallego-Sala, A.; Loisel, J.; Menges, J.; Roland, T. P.; Ahiable, C. A. E.; Akwany, L. O.; Alarcon-Prado, P. et al.; Anshari, G.; Alappat, L.; Baird, A. J.; Bąk, M.; Boole, B.; Jacques, J.; Batten, S. E.; Beaudoin, Y.; Bechtold, M.; Bu, Z.-J.; Budisusanti, S. P. M.; Benavides, J. C.; Chawchai, S.; Chimner, R. A.; Cobb, A. R.; Cole, L. E. S.; Connolly, J.; Vargas, C.; Coral, J.; Courtney-Mustaphi, C. J.; Davidson, S. J.; de la Peña, A.; Duley, E.; Elshehawi, S.; Espinoza León, I.; Finkelstein, S. A.; Garneau, M.; Girkin, N. T.; Glen, E.; Grover, S.; Grundling, P.-L.; Handley, J. N.; Helfter, C.; Hergoualch, K.; Hoyt, A. M.; Huang, X.; Imani, G.; James, A.; Kabonyi Nzabandora, C.; Kagaba Kairumba, C.; Kansiime, F.; Kolka, R. K.; Koren, G.; Korhola, A.; Krisnawati, H.; Kumar, R.; Lamentowicz, M.; Lång, K.; Larmola, T.; Lewis, S. L.; Lopez, O. R.; López-Blanco, E.; Lupascu, M.; Maldonado-Fonken, M.; Marchant, R.; Marcisz, K.; Mazei, N. G.; Mazei, Y. A.; Mbasi, M.; Melling, L.; Miles, L.; Montanarella, L.; Moss, P. T.; Murgía-Flores, F.; NGuyen, M.-K.; Novita, N.; Oliver, D. J. S.; Orijemie, E. A.; Osaki, M.; Page, S. E.; Pancost, R. D.; Pandey, S.; Püschel Hoeneisen, N.; Zagaceta, Q.; H., C.; Ratnayake, A. S.; Reed, M. S.; Rochefort, L.; Saavedra, B.; Samuel, J.; Scheel, P.; Schutten, H.; Siegert, F.; Signori-Müller, C.; Strack, M.; Stolle, F.; Swindles, G. T.; Tanneberger, F.; Turetsky, M. R.; Urciuolo, A. B.; Väliranta, M.; Verstraeten, G.; Warren, M.; Webster, K. L.; Whinam, J.; Young, D. M.; Yu, Z.; Zhang, H.: Priority research questions in global peatland science. Communications Earth & Environment 7 (1), 349 (2026)