Origins and Spread of Agriculture
Oct 1, 2017
Nicolas Gauthier
Assistant Curator, AI for Cultural and Biological Diversity
My research interests include human ecology, complex adaptive systems, and paleoclimatology.
Publications
The dynamics of risk perception in a Mediterranean agroecosystem
Small-scale agriculturalists in the Mediterranean Basin rely on multiple strategies including diversification, intensification, and …
Nicolas Gauthier
“Digital Proxies” for Validating Models of Past Socio-ecological Systems in the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project
C. Michael Barton, Isaac I. T. Ullah, Nicolas Gauthier, Nari Miller, Grant Snitker, Irene Esteban-Alamá, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Arjun Heimsath
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use
Environmentally transformative human use of land accelerated with the emergence of agriculture, but the extent, trajectory, and …
Lucas Stephens, Dorian Fuller, Nicole Boivin, Torben Rick, Nicolas Gauthier, Andrea Kay, Ben Marwick, and the ArchaeoGLOBE project
Risk and resilience in the late glacial: A case study from the western Mediterranean
The period spanning the Last Glacial Maximum through early Holocene encompasses dramatic and rapid environmental changes that offered …
C Michael Barton, J Emili Aura Tortosa, Oreto Garcia-Puchol, Julien G Riel-Salvatore, Nicolas Gauthier, Margarita Vadillo Conesa, Geneviève Pothier Bouchard
The spatial pattern of climate change during the spread of farming into the Aegean
I examine the relationship between the spatial pattern of aridification in the northeastern Mediterranean ca 8600 years ago and the …
Nicolas Gauthier
Modeling agropastoral landscapes in the Marmara Lake Basin, western Anatolia
This study examines the development of agropastoralism in the Marmara Lake Basin in western Anatolia. It investigates how the …
Nicolas Gauthier