Cannabis is among the oldest human domesticates and has been subjected to intensive
artificial (human-mediated) selection throughout history to create a wide array of varieties …

This volume presents a comprehensive review of palaeoenvironmental evidence and its
incorporation with landscape archaeology from across the Mediterranean. A fundamental …

Recent, high-resolution palaeoecological records are changing the traditional picture of post-
glacial vegetation succession in the Iberian Peninsula. In addition to the influence of …

Holocene climatic changes along coastal regions from south-east France to south-east
Spain were studied using pollen ratios. Comparing modern pollen rain, vegetation and …

Olive (Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient
Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin …

Future warming in the Mediterranean is expected to significantly exceed global values with
unpredictable implications on the sea-level rise rates in the coming decades. Here, we apply …

Lacustrine sedimients from Lago di Pergusa in central Sicily provide a Postglacial record of
environmental change in the Mediterranean. Magnetic susceptibility measurements …

This paper provides a synthesis of available palynological data from central Mediterranean
lacustrine records, studying the causes of the important vegetation changes which occurred …

Three sedimentary sequences from the southeastern littoral of the Iberian Peninsula have
been palynologically studied. The results obtained show that during the Holocene no …

The aim of this research is to study the climate and vegetation history in the western
Mediterranean, in the Iberian Peninsula, during the middle Holocene through pollen …