The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a
climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …

A systematic review of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records of cannabis (fibres,
pollen, achenes and imprints of achenes) reveals its complex history in Eurasia. A …

Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global
environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated …

The globalizing connections that defined the European Bronze Age in the second
millennium BC either ended or abruptly changed in the decades around 1200 BC. The …

Pollen data from three off-site records and twenty-six on-site (archaeological) sites are
reviewed to investigate the development of cultural landscapes through the history of the …

The sedimentary infilling of the moat surrounding the Villaggio Piccolo of the Terramara
Santa Rosa di Poviglio was analysed in order to obtain palaeoenvironmental inferences …

We examine three distinctive biostratigraphic signatures of humans associated with hunting
and gathering, landscape domestication and globalization. All three signatures have …

The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to
provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support …

Pollen records and pollen-based climate reconstructions from the Italian peninsula (central
Mediterranean) show clear signals of vegetation change linked to variations in water …

Archaeobotany is used to discover details on local land uses in prehistoric settlements
developed during the middle and beginning of late Holocene. Six archaeological sites from …