[HTML][HTML] The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

M Bini, G Zanchetta, A Perşoiu, R Cartier… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a
climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies

A Palmisano, D Lawrence, MW De Gruchy… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

Holocene hydro-climatic variability in the Mediterranean: A synthetic multi-proxy reconstruction

M Finné, J Woodbridge, I Labuhn… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Here we identify and analyze proxy data interpreted to reflect hydro-climatic variability over
the last 10,000 years from the Mediterranean region to (1) outline millennial and multi …

[HTML][HTML] Late Bronze Age climate change and the destruction of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos

M Finné, K Holmgren, CC Shen, HM Hu, M Boyd… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This paper offers new high-resolution oxygen and carbon isotope data from Stalagmite S1
from Mavri Trypa Cave, SW Peloponnese. Our data provide the climate background to the …

Mediterranean landscape change during the Holocene: Synthesis, comparison and regional trends in population, land cover and climate

CN Roberts, J Woodbridge, A Palmisano… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This synthesis paper offers a comparative perspective on how seven different Mediterranean
regions, from Iberia and Morocco to the Levant, have been transformed by human and …

[HTML][HTML] Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal

F Schaebitz, A Asrat, HF Lamb, AS Cohen… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates
about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Atlantic forcing of Western Mediterranean winter rain minima during the last 12,000 years

C Zielhofer, WJ Fletcher, S Mischke, M De Batist… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The limited availability of high-resolution continuous archives, insufficient chronological
control, and complex hydro-climatic forcing mechanisms lead to many uncertainties in …

Human responses and non-responses to climatic variations during the last Glacial-Interglacial transition in the eastern Mediterranean

N Roberts, J Woodbridge, A Bevan, A Palmisano… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We review and evaluate human adaptations during the last glacial-interglacial climatic
transition in southwest Asia. Stable isotope data imply that climatic change was synchronous …

[HTML][HTML] The 4.2 ka BP event in the Levant

D Kaniewski, N Marriner, R Cheddadi, J Guiot… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
The 4.2 ka BP event is defined as a phase of environmental stress characterized by severe
and prolonged drought of global extent. The event is recorded from the North Atlantic …

Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers

M Roffet-Salque, A Marciniak… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The 8.2-thousand years BP event is evident in multiple proxy records across the globe,
showing generally dry and cold conditions for ca. 160 years. Environmental changes around …