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 …

We examine mid-to late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy
data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem. A high degree of between-record variability is …

We consider the long-term relationship between human demography, food production, and
Holocene climate via an archaeological radiocarbon date series of unprecedented sampling …

In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Although broomcorn and foxtail millet are among the earliest staple crop domesticates, their
spread and impacts on demography remain controversial, mainly because of the use of …

High-resolution isotopic analyses were performed on RL4 flowstone from Renella Cave
(Alpi Apuane, central Italy), a speleothem studied previously at low resolution. The new data …

Abstract The Quaternary System/Period represents the past 2.58 million years and is
officially subdivided into the Pleistocene and Holocene series/epochs, with the base of the …

It is widely believed that multi-decadal to centennial cooling and drought occurred from 4500
to 3900 BP, known as the 4.2 ka BP event that triggered the collapse of several cultures …

Peatlands have been widely studied in terms of their ecohydrology, carbon dynamics,
ecosystem services and palaeoenvironmental archives. However, several assumptions are …

Evidence for a major climate event at 5.2 ka has been reported globally and is associated
with considerable societal disruption, but is poorly characterised in northwest Europe. This …