Downcore counting of laminations in varved sediments offers a direct and incremental
dating technique for high-resolution climatic and environmental archives with at least annual …

The timing and development of Holocene human occupation in the now hyperarid Sahara
has major implications for understanding links between climate change, demography and …

In the future, the Sahara and Sahelian regions could experience more rainfall than today as
a result of climate change. Wetter periods, termed African humid periods, occurred in the …

The timing and abruptness of the initiation and termination of the Early Holocene African
Humid Period are subjects of ongoing debate, with direct consequences for our …

From the deglacial period to the mid-Holocene, North Africa was characterized by much
wetter conditions than today. The broad timing of this period, termed the African Humid …

There is great uncertainty over the timing and magnitude of the termination of the African
Humid Period (AHP). Spanning from the early to middle Holocene, the AHP was a period of …

There is ample evidence from palaeobotanic and palaeoclimatic reconstructions that during
early and mid-Holocene between some 11,700 years (in some regions, a few thousand …

Millennial-to-interannual events play important roles in driving climate change on Earth.
However, most studies focus on Quaternary records, and few focus on pre-Quaternary …

The end of the African Humid Period between 6,000 and 4,000 years ago was associated
with large changes in precipitation and vegetation cover. Sediment records from Lake Yoa …

The sedimentary record of the Dead Sea provides an exceptional high-resolution archive of
past climate changes in the drought-sensitive eastern Mediterranean-Levant, a key region …