… from Balkan refugia with an Early Pleistocene age. Here we present a unique palynological
archive from such a refugium, the Lake Ohrid basin, … Pollen-based biome reconstruction …

… over the Central Balkans led to a change in precipitation maxima from winter to warmer periods
… Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (SE Europe) …

… Several of these studies show the potential of Lake Ohrid for pollen-based … Balkans; so far
only a few palynological studies from close proximity to prehistoric settlements exist from this …

… Similarly, pollen assemblages from Lake Ohrid during this interval demonstrate a reduction
in … However, similarly to other western Balkan sites, they persist during the open vegetation …

… ) in the Balkans from the Lake Ohrid pollen record. Towards the end of the glacial period, …
temperatures and precipitation were increasing. This pattern agrees well with the temperature …

… temperature of 26 C and −1 C, respectively. The mean annual precipitation varies from
720 to 1200 mm yr −1 in the lake's valley and the surrounding mountain ranges, respectively. …

… In this study, time series from the same broad region that do not show any abrupt change
during the period of interest are used as the control set (see Fig. 1a, Table 1 and Fig. S1) and …

… Here, we document vegetation history of the last 1.36 Ma in the Lake Ohrid (LO) catchment,
located at the Albanian/North Macedonian border at 693 m above sea level (m asl, Fig. 1), …

… by a slight decrease of precipitation and temperatures during the Mid-Late Holocene. Our
study reveals a significant impact of abrupt climate changes on populations in the Near East …

… The term “Baza Basin” will be used through this work to refer also to the western sector of
the Guadix-Baza depression. Baza Basin has an approximate altitude of between 900 and …