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Tim Denham

Researcher at Australian National University

Publications -  155
Citations -  6069

Tim Denham is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Domestication & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 138 publications receiving 5001 citations. Previous affiliations of Tim Denham include Flinders University & La Trobe University.

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Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

TL;DR: This work focuses on four major phases that witnessed broad anthropogenic alterations to biodiversity—the Late Pleistocene global human expansion, the Neolithic spread of agriculture, the era of island colonization, and the emergence of early urbanized societies and commercial networks.
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Origins of Agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of New Guinea

TL;DR: Investigations at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea show that agriculture arose independently in New Guinea by at least 6950 to 6440 calibrated years before the present, and Taro was utilized in the early Holocene.
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Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

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- 30 Aug 2019 - 
TL;DR: An empirical global assessment of land use from 10,000 years before the present (yr B.P.) to 1850 CE reveals a planet largely transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists by 3000 years ago, considerably earlier than the dates in the land-use reconstructions commonly used by Earth scientists.