A review of seven outstanding issues on Mediterranean palaeoenvironments is presented.
These are related to the dominant orbital pacing of climate variability, the length of the …

We review and evaluate human adaptations during the last glacial-interglacial climatic
transition in southwest Asia. Stable isotope data imply that climatic change was synchronous …

This study presents results from a multi-proxy analysis of cores taken in a crater-lake
sequence from Eski Acigöl in centr-al Turkey which cover the period from pre-c. 16000 cal …

Hitherto, the earliest archaeological finds of domestic cereals in southwestern Asia have
involved wheats and barleys dating from the beginning of the Holocene, 11–12000 calendar …

We consider the daily practices of food preparation and consumption at the Neolithic
Anatolian site of Çatalhöyük. We present the major food activities suggested from the …

Archaeological charcoal remains are often used to reconstruct local woodland composition
in the past, but rarely address how and why people may have selected specific woody taxa …

It is commonly accepted that, following the end of the Pleistocene, semi-arid deciduous oak
woodlands did not spread in the Irano-Anatolian region of Southwest Asia as quickly as they …

he Tuz Gölü Basin is the largest sedimentary depression located at the center of the Central
Anatolian Plateau, an extensive, low-relief region with elevations of ca. 1 km located …

In situ cosmogenic 36Cl was measured in boulders from moraines on Mount Sandıras (37.1°
N, 28.8° E, 2295m), the southwestern most previously glaciated mountain in Turkey. Valleys …

In the endoreic, semi-arid Konya basin on the central Anatolian plateaux, long-term
hydrological evolution has left various landforms and lacustrine deposits reflecting the …