The climate factor has become a focus of much historical and archaeological investigation,
encouraged recently by improvements in palaeoclimatic techniques and interest in global …

Archaeology is often defined as the study of the past through material culture. As we enter
the Anthropocene, however, the two parts of this definition increasingly diverge. In the …

What impact did the Roman Climate Optimum (RCO) and the Late Antique Little Ice Age
(LALIA) have on the rise and fall of the Roman Empire? Our article presents an agent-based …

This is the last of a three‐part review of Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome. Here, we scrutinize
Harper's treatment of the Justinianic Plague, demonstrating how he crafts a convincing …

We draw on theories and empirical findings from urban economics to explore and explain
patterns of city growth in the Middle Ages (c. 800–1500 CE). We discuss how agricultural …

Abstract Professor Rubina Raja, has collected almost four thousand portraits, and collated
data on over three hundred recorded tombs from the site of Palmyra, Syria. Combined with …

Abstract The Italian Peninsula, a natural pier across the Mediterranean Sea, witnessed
intricate population events since the very beginning of the human occupation in Europe. In …

This paper promotes an explicit study of archaeologies of empire and environment, and
advances theories and methods in environmental archaeology that demonstrate that …

For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did
not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what …

This bibliometric analysis deals with research on the decline and fall of the Western Roman
Empire in connection with climate change. Based on the Web of Science (WoS) database …