European-Mediterranean region. Isotope geochemical proxies have been compiled to
provide independent ancillary data to improve the paleoenvironmental history for the period …

The article presents Holocene sequence of climate anomalies, the» rapid cooling cycle
«(including» glacial events «,» rapid climate change «, and» cold events «), and global …

The aim of this thesis is to understand the nature of changing human-environment
interactions through prehistory (from the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age) in two …

Dr David Smith and Professor Henry Chapman (University of Birmingham) were my
supervisors and expert guides throughout my research, and they are owed a special debt of …

En commençant nos travaux sur les instruments de pesée, nous pensions que l'un de ses
enjeux serait de distinguer les différents systèmes métrologiques employés en Europe …

The shift to agriculture as the main form of subsistence practice allowed past peoples the
freedom and potential to exploit their natural and man-made environment for personal and …

There is the question if universities still conserve their capacity to endow critical sense
(direction and reason for being) to what surrounds it or it has simply been subordinated to …

Fire is a fundamental environmental factor that directly shapes many terrestrial ecosystems
on Earth. The present thesis attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of the fire …

The typically qualitative treatment of evidence underlying different causal hypotheses that
attempt to explain singular historic events is criticized. Instead of using ad hoc qualitative …