PANTROPOCENE: Finding a Pre-industrial, Pan-tropical ‘Anthropocene’

Project Information

PANTROPOCENE

Grant agreement ID: 850709

DOI

10.3030/850709

Project closed

EC signature date 23 October 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 375,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 375,00

Coordinated by

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (26)

Tropical forests as key sites of the “Anthropocene”: Past and present perspectives

Author(s): Patrick Roberts; Patrick Roberts; Patrick Roberts; Rebecca Hamilton; Rebecca Hamilton; Dolores R. Piperno; Dolores R. Piperno
Published in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2109243118

‘Wildland-urban interfaces’ from an archaeological perspective

Author(s): Roberts, P. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4403-7548; Los, S. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6310-6414; Carleton, W.; Winkelmann, R. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1248-3217; Maezumi, S. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4333-1972
Published in: Journal of urban archaeology, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2736-2426
Publisher: Brepolis

Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania

Author(s): Patrick Roberts; Katerina Douka; Monica Tromp; Stuart Bedford; Stuart Hawkins; Laurie Bouffandeau; Jana Ilgner; Mary Lucas; Sara Marzo; Rebecca Hamilton; Wallace Ambrose; David Bulbeck; Sindy Luu; Richard Shing; Chris Gosden; Glenn Summerhayes; Matthew Spriggs
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0495

Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia

Author(s): Zhuo Zheng, Ting Ma, Patrick Roberts, Zhen Li, Yuanfu Yue, Huanhuan Peng, Kangyou Huang, Ziyun Han, Qiuchi Wan, Yaze Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Yanwei Zheng, Yoshiki Saito
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 118, 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2022210118

Mapping our reliance on the tropics can reveal the roots of the Anthropocene

Author(s): Patrick Roberts, Jed O. Kaplan, David Max Findley, Rebecca Hamilton, Victor Lery Caetano-Andrade, Noel Amano, Andrea U. Kay, Jürgen Renn, Ricarda Winkelmann
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 7, 2023, Page(s) 632-636, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-01998-x

Cutmarked bone of drought-tolerant extinct megafauna deposited with traces of fire, human foraging, and introduced animals in SW Madagascar

Author(s): Sean W. Hixon, Alejandra I. Domic, Kristina G. Douglass, Patrick Roberts, Laurie Eccles, Michael Buckley, Sarah Ivory, Sarah Noe, Douglas J. Kennett
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22980-w

Dispersal, Adoption, Rejection: The Columbian Exchange and the West Pacific

Author(s): David Max Findley, Mark J. Hudson, Angela Schottenhammer
Published in: International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 1092-7697
Publisher: Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10761-024-00757-3

Land use change in a pericolonial society: intensification and diversification in Ifugao, Philippines between 1570 and 1800 CE

Author(s): David Max Findley; Stephen Acabado; Noel Amano; Andrea U. Kay; Rebecca Hamilton; Grace Barretto-Tesoro; Greg Bankoff; Jed O. Kaplan; Patrick Roberts
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2296-6463
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.680926

Of two-tailed lizards: spells, folk-knowledge, and navigating manila, 1620–1650

Author(s): Findley, David Max
Published in: Journal of Social History, 2022, ISSN 1527-1897
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shac032

Bayesian regression versus machine learning for rapid age estimation of archaeological features identified with lidar at Angkor

Author(s): W. Christopher Carleton, Sarah Klassen, Jonathan Niles-Weed, Damian Evans, Patrick Roberts, Huw S. Groucutt
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-44875-0

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

Author(s): Julien Louys, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Nature, Issue 586/7829, 2020, Page(s) 402-406, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2810-y

Speleological and environmental history of Lida Ajer cave, western Sumatra

Author(s): Louys, J.; Duval, M.; Price, G.; Westaway, K.; Zaim, Y.; Rizal, Y.; null, n.; Puspaningrum, M.; Trihascaryo, A.; Breitenbach, S.; Kwiecien, O.; Cai, Y.; Higgins, P.; Albers, P.; de Vos, J.; Roberts, P.
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0494

Ecological stability of Late Pleistocene-to-Holocene Lesotho, southern Africa, facilitated human upland habitation

Author(s): Robert Patalano, Charles Arthur, William Christopher Carleton, Sam Challis, Genevieve Dewar, Kasun Gayantha, Gerd Gleixner, Jana Ilgner, Mary Lucas, Sara Marzo, Rethabile Mokhachane, Kyra Pazan, Diana Spurite, Mike W. Morley, Adrian Parker, Peter Mitchell, Brian A. Stewart, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00784-8

Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific

Author(s): Rebecca Hamilton, Jesse Wolfhagen, Noel Amano, Nicole Boivin, David Max Findley, José Iriarte, Jed O. Kaplan, Janelle Stevenson, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 11, 2021, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01474-4

Ancient Great Wall building materials reveal environmental changes associated with oases in northwestern China

Author(s): Robert Patalano, Jing Hu, Qin Leng, Weiguo Liu, Huanye Wang, Patrick Roberts, Michael Storozum, Lin Yang, Hong Yang
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-27071-4

Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics”

Author(s): Patrick Roberts, Alice Buhrich, Victor Caetano-Andrade, Richard Cosgrove, Andrew Fairbairn, S. Anna Florin, Nils Vanwezer, Nicole Boivin, Barry Hunter, Desley Mosquito, Gerry Turpin, Åsa Ferrier
Published in: iScience, Issue 24/3, 2021, Page(s) 102190, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: CellPress
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102190

Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago

Author(s): Noel Amano, Greg Bankoff, David Max Findley, Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Patrick Roberts
Published in: The Holocene, Issue 31/2, 2021, Page(s) 313-330, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0959683620941152

Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

Author(s): Patrick Roberts, Julien Louys, Jana Zech, Ceri Shipton, Shimona Kealy, Sofia Samper Carro, Stuart Hawkins, Clara Boulanger, Sara Marzo, Bianca Fiedler, Nicole Boivin, Mahirta, Ken Aplin, Sue OʼConnor
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15969-4

Late Holocene camelid pastoralism in the Puna highlands of Argentina: an integrative approach using stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel

Author(s): Celeste T. Samec, Hugo D. Yacobaccio, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2813-432X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2025.1557715

A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus

Author(s): Mariya Antonosyan, Gwendoline Maurer, Satenik Mkrtchyan, Kseniia Boxleitner, Mariam Saribekyan, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Laura Furquim, Freg Stokes, Ruben Davtyan, Arsen Bobokhyan, Karen Azatyan, Jana Ilgner, Sabine Reinhold, Ellery Frahm, Robert Spengler, Patrick Roberts, Noel Amano, Levon Yepiskoposyan
Published in: iScience, Issue 28, 2026, Page(s) 112544, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112544

Leaf Wax Lipid Extraction for Archaeological Applications

Author(s): Robert Patalano, Jana Zech, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Current Protocols in Plant Biology, Issue 5/3, 2020, ISSN 2379-8068
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/cppb.20114

Re-imagining Sydney’s freshwater wetlands through historical ecology

Author(s): Rebecca Hamilton, Josephine Gillespie, Dan Penny, Shane Ingrey, Scott Mooney
Published in: Landscape Research, Issue 49, 2024, Page(s) 268-286, ISSN 0142-6397
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2023.2271421

Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”: comparing agricultural yields and expansion in the Spanish and U.S. Philippines, 1870–1925 CE

Author(s): David Max Findley, Noel Amano, Ivana Biong, Greg Bankoff, Patricia Irene Dacudao, Francis Gealogo, Rebecca Hamilton, Ruel Pagunsan, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-03310-z

Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems

Author(s): Sandra Nogué, Naia Morueta-Holme, José María Fernández-Palacios, Inger G. Alsos, Anthony Brown, Patrick Roberts, Josep Peñuelas
Published in: Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 644-656, ISSN 3005-0677
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44358-025-00081-6

Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum

Author(s): Rebecca Hamilton, Noel Amano, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Frédérik Saltré, Robert Patalano, Dan Penny, Janelle Stevenson, Jesse Wolfhagen, Patrick Roberts
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311280120

Tropical forests in the deep human past

Author(s): S. Yoshi Maezumi; Eleanor Scerri; Patrick Roberts; Yadvinder Malhi
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0500

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Isotope analysis in archaeology grand challenge

Author(s): Patrick Roberts
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2813-432X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2022.988656