A review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP: setting the environmental background …

SA Robinson, S Black, BW Sellwood… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The southern Levant has a long history of human habitation and it has been previously
suggested that climatic changes during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene stimulated changes …

Vegetation and climate changes in the South Eastern Mediterranean during the Last Glacial-Interglacial cycle (86 ka): new marine pollen record

D Langgut, A Almogi-Labin, M Bar-Matthews… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The Eastern Mediterranean, located at the meeting between the Mediterranean vegetation
of the Eurasian continent and the desert vegetation of the Saharan-Arabian desert belt, is …

Climate and the Late Bronze collapse: new evidence from the southern Levant

D Langgut, I Finkelstein, T Litt - Tel Aviv, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to …

Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel)

F Berna, A Behar, R Shahack-Gross, J Berg… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Many of the sediments analysed from Tel Dor (Israel) show structural alterations indicating
that they were exposed to high temperatures. This observation is consistent with the …

Climatic fluctuations and early farming in West and East Asia

O Bar-Yosef - Current Anthropology, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper presents a Levantine model for the origins of cultivation of various wild plants as
motivated by the vagaries of the climatic fluctuation of the Younger Dryas within the context …

Vegetation and climate changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages (∼ 3600–600 BCE) in the southern Levant based on palynological records

D Langgut, I Finkelstein, T Litt, FH Neumann, M Stein - Radiocarbon, 2015 - cambridge.org
This article presents the role of climate fluctuations in shaping southern Levantine human
history from 3600 to 600 BCE (the Bronze and Iron Ages) as evidenced in palynological …

Climate and environmental reconstruction of the Epipaleolithic Mediterranean Levant (22.0–11.9 ka cal. BP)

D Langgut, R Cheddadi, G Sharon - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study presents, for the first time, an environmental reconstruction of a sequence
spanning nearly the entire Mediterranean Epipaleolithic (∼ 22.0–11.9 ka cal. BP). The study …

Dead Sea pollen record and history of human activity in the Judean Highlands (Israel) from the Intermediate Bronze into the Iron Ages (~ 2500–500 BCE)

D Langgut, FH Neumann, M Stein, A Wagner… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed pollen record for the time interval of~ 2500–500 BCE, which covers the time
period of the Intermediate Bronze Age (Early Bronze Age IV) into the Iron Ages in the Levant …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene sea-level rise and coastal aquifer interactions: Triggering mechanisms for environmental change and impacts on human settlement patterns at Dor …

G Shtienberg, K Cantu, S Mischke, D Sivan… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Future sea-level rise is expected to affect coastal aquifers and environments and have
significant impacts on coastal communities. Here, we describe the impact of early to late …

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

MD Jones, N Abu‐Jaber, A AlShdaifat… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for
studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region …