Publications

Pattern-based downscaling of snowpack variability in the western United States

The decline in snowpack across the western United States is one of the most immediate threats posed by climate change to regional …
Nicolas Gauthier, Bethany Coulthard, Kevin J. Anchukaitis
PDF Project

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
PDF Code Project Source Document

“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
PDF Code Project Source Document

The persistence of ancient settlements and urban sustainability

We propose a dedicated research effort on the determinants of settlement persistence in the ancient world, with the potential to …
Michael E. Smith, José Lobo, Matthew A. Peeples, Abigail M. York, Benjamin W. Stanley, Katherine A. Crawford, Nicolas Gauthier, Angela C. Huster
PDF Code Project

Patterns of vertebrate richness across global anthromes: prioritizing conservation beyond biomes and ecoregions

There is a clear need to refocus the way we prioritize conservation actions at a global scale to incorporate human systems. Anthromes …
John E Quinn, Emma K Cook, Nicolas Gauthier
PDF Project

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human societies employed varying degrees of ecologically …
Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin, Sandra Díaz, Dorian Q. Fuller, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jed O. Kaplan, Naomi Kingston, Harvey Locke, Crystal N. H. McMichael, Darren Ranco, Torben C. Rick, M. Rebecca Shaw, Lucas Stephens, Jens-Christian Svenning, James E. M. Watson
PDF Code Dataset Project

Hydroclimate variability influenced social interaction in the prehistoric American Southwest

In agricultural societies, farmers rely on their social networks to absorb the impacts of droughts and floods by facilitating resource …
Nicolas Gauthier
PDF Code Project Project Video

Trade, Migration, and the Dynamics of Spatial Interaction

Archaeological settlement patterns are the physical remains of complex webs of human decision-making and social interaction. …
Nicolas Gauthier
Preprint PDF Code Project

PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data

The progress of science is tied to the standardization of measurements, instruments, and data. This is especially true in the Big Data …
D. Khider, J. Emile‐Geay, N. P. McKay, et. al (including Nicolas Gauthier)

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
PDF Code Dataset Project Project Source Document

Multilevel simulation of demography and food production in ancient agrarian societies: A case study from Roman North Africa

Feedbacks between population growth, food production, and the environment were central to the growth and decay of ancient agrarian …
Nicolas Gauthier
Preprint PDF Code 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
PDF Code Project Project

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
PDF Project Project

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
PDF Project Project