Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33952528›Full record

ArticleScience advances2021

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa.

Jessica C Thompson, David K Wright, Sarah J Ivory, Jeong-Heon Choi, Sheila Nightingale, Alex Mackay, Flora Schilt, Erik Otárola-Castillo, Julio Mercader, Steven L Forman and 18 more

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Science advances, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Human behaviour and climate-linked fluctuations in the rainforests of West-Central Africa.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Integrative geochronology calibrates the Middle and Late Stone Ages of Ethiopia's Afar Rift.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

28 authors.

Jessica C ThompsonDepartment of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. jessica.thompson@yale.edu david.wright@iakh.uio.no sji15@psu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1627-4949
David K WrightDepartment of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. jessica.thompson@yale.edu david.wright@iakh.uio.no sji15@psu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1704-0423
Sarah J IvoryDepartment of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. jessica.thompson@yale.edu david.wright@iakh.uio.no sji15@psu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4709-4406
Jeong-Heon ChoiDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2423-9959
Sheila NightingaleDepartment of Anthropology, City University of New York, Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3623-4637
Alex MackayCentre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6396-0821
Flora SchiltInstitute for Archaeological Sciences and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2144-3017
Erik Otárola-CastilloDepartment of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7806-494X
Julio MercaderDepartment of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5637-7937
Steven L FormanDepartment of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2080-7915
Timothy PietschAustralian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Andrew S CohenDepartment of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9995-9489
J Ramón ArrowsmithSchool of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1756-3697
Menno WellingReinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1682-5782
Jacob DavisIndependent Researcher, New Haven, CT, USA.
Benjamin SchieryBiostatistics Department, Medpace Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Potiphar KalibaMalawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Oris MalijaniMalawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Margaret W BlomeDepartment of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2908-6787
Corey A O'DriscollCentre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8223-0066
Susan M MentzerInstitute for Archaeological Sciences and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3117-8448
Christopher MillerInstitute for Archaeological Sciences and Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Seoyoung HeoDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Korea Basic Science Institute, Ochang, Republic of Korea.
Jungyu ChoiGyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-5015-7194
Joseph TemboMalawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Fredrick MapembaMalawi Department of Museums and Monuments, Lilongwe, Malawi.
Davie SimengwaLanujos Social Research and Consultancy, Blantyre, Malawi.ORCID 0000-0001-7528-7008
Elizabeth Gomani-ChindebvuMinistry of Civic Education and National Unity, Lilongwe, Malawi.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern

Identifiers

PMID33952528
PMCPMC8099189

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.