Alessio Palmisano

TL;DR: A database of historical and archaeological information from 30 regions around the world over the last 10,000 years revealed that characteristics, such as social scale, economy, features of governance, and information systems, show strong evolutionary relationships with each other and that complexity of a society across different world regions can be meaningfully measured using a single principal component of variation.

TL;DR: Seshat: The Global History Databank as mentioned in this paper is a large-scale dataset of historical and archaeological information about past human societies that has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative perspective on how seven different Mediterranean regions, from Iberia and Morocco to the Levant, have been transformed by human and natural agencies during the last century is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the strengths and weaknesses of different kinds of archaeological evidence for population patterns, as well as how they address related issues such as taphonomic loss, chronological uncertainty and uneven sampling.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of land use and demographic development in northern and southern Greece from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period is presented, where results from summed probability densities (SPD) of archaeological radiocarbon dates and settlement numbers derived from archaeological site surveys are combined with results from cluster-based analysis of published pollen core assemblages.