The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

M Bini, G Zanchetta, A Perşoiu, R Cartier… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Pluvial periods in Southern Arabia over the last 1.1 million-years

SL Nicholson, AWG Pike, R Hosfield, N Roberts… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Past climates and environments experienced by the Saharo-Arabian desert belt are of prime
importance for palaeoclimatic and palaeoanthropological research. On orbital timescales …

Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

EC Corrick, RN Drysdale, JC Hellstrom, E Capron… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period have been detected in a global array of
palaeoclimate records, but our understanding of their absolute timing and regional …

[HTML][HTML] Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art

R White, G Bosinski, R Bourrillon, J Clottes… - 2020 - Elsevier
Based on uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating of calcite deposits overlying paintings in three
Spanish caves, Hoffmann et al.(2018a) have proposed that a rectangular sign at La Pasiega …

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …

Megapixel multi-elemental imaging by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, a technology with considerable potential for paleoclimate studies

JO Cáceres, F Pelascini, V Motto-Ros, S Moncayo… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Paleoclimate studies play a crucial role in understanding past and future climates and their
environmental impacts. Current methodologies for performing highly sensitive elemental …

The significance of aragonite in the interpretation of the microscopic archaeological record

MB Toffolo - Geoarchaeology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aragonite is one of the metastable polymorphs of calcium carbonate and is commonly found
at archaeological sites in the form of mollusk shells and speleothems. Other occurrences …

Tropical Indo-Pacific hydroclimate response to North Atlantic forcing during the last deglaciation as recorded by a speleothem from Sumatra, Indonesia

JB Wurtzel, NJ Abram, SC Lewis, P Bajo… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Abrupt changes in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation are known to have
affected the strength of the Indian and Asian Monsoons during glacial and deglacial climate …

[HTML][HTML] What do we really know about early diagenesis of non-marine carbonates?

E De Boever, AT Brasier, A Foubert, S Kele - Sedimentary Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Non-marine carbonate rocks including cave, spring, stream, calcrete and lacustrine-
palustrine sediments, are susceptible to early diagenetic processes. These can profoundly …

The properties of annually laminated Stalagmites‐A global synthesis

A Baker, G Mariethoz, L Comas‐Bru… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Annually laminated speleothems have the potential to provide information on high‐
frequency climate variability and, simultaneously, provide good chronological constraints …