Several late Quaternary studies have recorded cold and disturbed climates centred during
the mid-first millennium AD and discussed these conditions under the term 'Dark Ages Cold …

Climate reconstructions for the Common Era are compromised by the paucity of annually-
resolved and absolutely-dated proxy records prior to medieval times. Where reconstructions …

The present interglacial, the Holocene, spans the period of the last 11,700 years. It has
sustained the growth and development of modern society. The millennial-scale decreasing …

The last 6000years are of particular interest to the understanding of the Earth System
because the boundary conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in …

While the abrupt climate events of the last deglaciation are well defined in ice core records
from the polar regions of both hemispheres, their manifestation elsewhere is less well …

The Little Ice Age (LIA; ca. 1250 1850) has long been considered the coldest interval of the
Holocene. Because of its proximity to the present, there are many types of valuable …

Climatic changes during the first half of the Common Era have been suggested to play a role
in societal reorganizations in Europe 1, 2 and Asia 3, 4. In particular, the sixth century …

First Published in 2004. Climate Since AD 1500 presents a unique perspective on the'Little
Ice Age'and the climate of the twentieth century. Leading scientists explore historical …

A review of the palynological evidence from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State
north to the Alaska Panhandle strongly supports the existence of a climatic oscillation similar …

From observations of continuous aeolian and swamp sediment sequences, augmented by a
detailed 14C chronology, δ13C and organic C analyses, we can demonstrate century-to …