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 …

There is a general consensus that climate change is an ongoing phenomenon. This will
inevitably bring about numerous environmental problems, including alterations to the …

The accumulation of recent data from archaeobotany, archaeozoology and Neolithic
excavations from across South Asia warrants a new overview of early agriculture in the …

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

The 4.2 ka BP event is defined as a phase of environmental stress characterized by severe
and prolonged drought of global extent. The event is recorded from the North Atlantic …

Background Approximately two hundred human burials were discovered on the edge of a
paleolake in Niger that provide a uniquely preserved record of human occupation in the …

Abstract The African Humid Period (∼ 11,000–5,000 years before present) was the most
recent of several precessionally paced wet intervals during which an increase in the …

The human selection of food plants cannot always have been aimed exclusively at isolating
the traits typical of domesticated species today. Each phase of global change must have …

Cattle pastoralism is an important trait of African cultures. Ethnographic studies describe the
central role played by domestic cattle within many societies, highlighting its social and …

Rock shelters in the central Saharan massifs preserve anthropogenic stratigraphic
sequences that represent both a precious archive for the prehistory of the region and a …