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

This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social
change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel …

This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for understanding the relationship
between climate change and “within-country inequalities,” referred here collectively as …

During the “Green Sahara” period (11,000 to 5000 years before the present), the Sahara
desert received high amounts of rainfall, supporting diverse vegetation, permanent lakes …

This paper rewrites the early history of Britain, showing that while the cultivation of cereals
arrived there in about 4000 cal BC, it did not last. Between 3300 and 1500 BC Britons …

Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the
daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence …

In Mediterranean and north-African regions, cultural trajectories have shown trends
sometimes coincident with climatic changes. The mid Holocene was a period of intense …

Climate change is a real and present threat to heritage across the world. In Europe and
North America, research on the impacts of climate change on heritage, including how to …

Climate change poses a challenge to the dominant development paradigm with its concepts
of modernisation, economic growth and globalisation which treat the environment as an …

Nearly four decades have passed since an independent North African centre for cattle
domestication was first proposed in 1980, based on the Combined Prehistoric Expedition's …