Publications of PS&H Independent Research Group

Defant, S.; Giostra, C.; Micheletto, E.; Garbarino, G. B.; Izdebski, A.; Sołtysiak, A.: Isolation and identity in a 5th/6th century ostrogothic rural community in Frascaro, Italy. Prähistorische Zeitschrift, 2034 (2025)

Spitzig, A.; Rösch, M.; Woodbridge, J.; Bauch, M.; Guzowski, P.; Erhart, P.; Fyfe, R.; Marinova, E.; Izdebski, A.: Cultural innovation can increase and maintain biodiversity: a case study from medieval Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (47), e2506266122, pp. 1 - 9 (2025)

Fiołna, S.; Doğan, M.; Eastwood, W.; Haldon, J.; Liakopoulos, G.; Şenkul, D.; Şenkul, Ç.; Izdebski, A.: Imperial systems and local landscapes of Buldan Yayla in Western Anatolia (Türkiye) during the last 4000 years: an integrated palynological, historical, and archaeological approach. Journal of Quaternary Science, 70008 (2025)

Kouli, K.; Liakopoulos, G.; Vasileiadi, G.; Lamprakis, D.; Malliaris, A.; Masci, L.; Masi, A.; Moros, M.; Papadaki, M.; Vignola, C. et al.; Avramidis, P.; Izdebski, A.: Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery. Journal of Quaternary Science, 70007 (2025)

Doğan, M.; Fiołna, S.; Duman, B.; Eastwood, W.; Haldon, J.; Izdebski, A.; Şenkul, Ç.: Environmental change and globalization dynamics in Roman Anatolia: stabilizing an accelerating system. Science Advances 11 (22), eadt7107 (2025)

Palli, J.; Fiolna, S.; Bini, M.; Cappella, F.; Izdebski, A.; Masi, A.; Mensing, S.; Nigro, L.; Piovesan, G.; Sadori, L. et al.; Zanchetta, G.: The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews 356, 109313, pp. 1 - 12 (2025)

Izdebski, A.; Czerwiński, S.; Jankowiak, M.; Danielewski, M.; Fiołna, S.; Gromig, R.; Guzowski, P.; Haghipour, N.; Hajdas, I.; Kołaczek, P. et al.; Lamentowicz, M.; Marcisz, K.; Niebieszczański, J.; Sankiewicz, P.; Wagner, B.: Unbalanced social–ecological acceleration led to state formation failure in early medieval Poland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (18), e2409056122, pp. 1 - 12 (2025)

Defant, S.; Carabia, A.; Fetner, R.; Craig-Atkins, E.; Fernandes, R.; Martino, G. P.; Costa, S.; Sołtysiak, a, A.; Izdebski, A.: Isotopic data reveal a localist Roman population in late Roman Albintimilium, Liguria. Scientific Reports 15 (1), 12097 (2025)

Masci, L.; Liakopoulos, G.; Gromig, R.; Kolovos, E.; Kouli, K.; Moros, M.; Sadori, L.; Sarantis, A.; Slavin, P.; Sypiański, J. et al.; Vidras, G.; Vignola, C.; Wagner, B.; Izdebski, A.; Masi, A.: Consilience in practice: social–ecological dynamics of the Lake Volvi region (Greece) during the last two millennia. Journal of Quaternary Science 40 (3), 3645, pp. 459 - 480 (2025)

Haldon, J.; Mordechai, L.; Dugmore, A.; Eisenberg, M.; Endfield, G.; Izdebski, A.; Jackson, R.; Kemp, L.; Labuhn, I.; McGovern, T. et al.; Metcalfe, S.; Morrison, K. D.; Newfield, T.; Trump, B.: Past answers to present concerns: the relevance of the premodern past for 21st century policy planners; comments on the state of the field. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: Climate change, e923 (2024)

Tian, Y.; Koncz, I.; Defant, S.; Giostra, C.; Vyas, D. N.; Sołtysiak, A.; Pejrani Baricco, L.; Fetner, R.; Posth, C.; Brandt, G. et al.; Bedini, E.; Modi, A.; Lari, M.; Vai, S.; Francalacci, P.; Fernandes, R.; Steinhof, A.; Pohl, W.; Caramelli, D.; Krause, J.; Izdebski, A.; Geary, P. J.; Veeramah, K. R.: The role of emerging elites in the formation and development of communities after the fall of the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (36), e2317868121, pp. 1 - 12 (2024)

Snow, K. C.: Responding to the West’s environmental security paradox: organic national security and the contemporary state embrace of severe anthropogenic environmental degradation, contamination, and vanishing (SEDCOV). Global security: health, science and policy 9 (1), 2358754 (2024)

Jordan, P.; Monaco, L.; Bini, M.; Cosma, E.; Giaccio, B.; Izdebski, A.; Masi, A.; Mensing, S.; Piovesan, G.; Rossi, V. et al.; Sadori, L.; Wagner, B.; Zanchetta, G.: The recent evolution of the salt marsh ‘Pantano Grande’ (NE Sicily, Italy): interplay between natural and human activity over the last 3700 years. Quaternary Sciences 39 (2), 3583, pp. 327 - 339 (2024)

Ekberzade, B.; Carrasco, R.; Izdebski, A.; Sofo, A.; Larsen, A.; Akinyemi, F.; Bruckman, V.; Baker, N.; Clark, S.; Hill, C.: GC insights: fostering transformative change for biodiversity restoration through transdisciplinary research. Geoscience communication 7 (1), 7-57-2024, pp. 57 - 61 (2024)

Masi, A.; Vignola, C.; Lazzara, A.; Moricca, C.; Serlorenzi, M.; Ferrandes, A. F.: The first extensive study of an Imperial Roman Garden in the city of Rome: the Horti Lamiani. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 33 (1), s00334-023-00960-y, pp. 111 - 120 (2024)

Susini, D.; Vignola, C.; Goffredo, R.; Totten, D. M.; Masi, A.; Smedile, A.; Martini, D.; Marco, P.; Cinti, F. R.; Sadori, L. et al.; Forti, L.; Fiorentino, G.; Sposato, A.; Mazzini, I.: Holocene palaeoenvironmental and human settlement evolution in the southern margin of the Salpi lagoon, Tavoliere coastal plain (Apulia, Southern Italy). Quaternary International 655, 012, pp. 37 - 54 (2023)

Lewandowska, A. M.; Milecka, K.; Niedzielski, P.; Czerwinski, S.; Gałka, M.: Late Glacial development of lakes and wetland vegetation in a dune area in Central Poland. Acta palaeobotanica 63 (1), 0001, pp. 1 - 20 (2023)

Masci, L.; Vignola, C.; Liakopoulos, G.; Kouli, K.; Koukousioura, O.; Aidona, E.; Moros, M.; Vouvalidis, K.; Izdebski, A.; Masi, A.: Landscape response to dynamic human pressure in the Paliouras Lagoon, Halkidiki Peninsula, Macedonia, Greece. Quaternary 5 (4), 54, pp. 1 - 24 (2022)

Karpińska-Kołaczek, M.; Kołaczek, P.; Czerwinski, S.; Gałka, M.; Guzowski, P.; Lamentowicz, M.: Anthropocene history of rich fen acidification in W Poland: causes and indicators of change. Science of the Total Environment 838 (1), 155785, pp. 1 - 14 (2022)

Izdebski, A.; Bauch, M.; Guzowski, P.; Mensing, S.; Mercuri, A. M.; Newfield, T.; Piovesan, G.; Sadori, L.; Vignola, C.; Masi, A.: Reply to ‘Reduction in grain pollen indicates population decline, but not necessarily Black Death mortality’. Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-022-01863-3 (2022)