Anthropocene tipping point reverses long-term Holocene cooling of the Mediterranean Sea: A meta-analysis of the basin's Sea Surface Temperature records

N Marriner, D Kaniewski, M Pourkerman… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Mediterranean is facing numerous socio-environmental challenges linked to global
change, frequently compounded by rapid population growth. Within this framework, regional …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing anthropogenic influence on fire history during the Holocene in the Iberian Peninsula

L Sweeney, SP Harrison, M Vander Linden - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The relative importance of climate change and human activities in influencing regional fire
regimes during the Holocene is still a matter of debate. The introduction of agriculture during …

Strong links between Saharan dust fluxes, monsoon strength, and North Atlantic climate during the last 5000 years

JA Cruz, F McDermott, MJ Turrero, RL Edwards… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Despite the multiple impacts of mineral aerosols on global and regional climate and the
primary climatic control on atmospheric dust fluxes, dust-climate feedbacks remain poorly …

Spatial patterns of temperature, precipitation, and settlement dynamics on the Iberian Peninsula during the Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age

J Schirrmacher, J Kneisel, D Knitter, W Hamer… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In light of recent climate changes, it is important to also gain knowledge about the spatial
manifestation of past climate events and their potential impact on ancient societies across a …

Hydroclimate variability from western Iberia (Portugal) during the Holocene: Insights from a composite stalagmite isotope record

DL Thatcher, AD Wanamaker, RF Denniston… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Iberia is predicted under future warming scenarios to be increasingly impacted by drought.
While it is known that this region has experienced multiple intervals of enhanced aridity over …

Holocene climate variability of the Western Mediterranean: Surface water dynamics inferred from calcareous plankton assemblages

P Bazzicalupo, P Maiorano, A Girone… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
A high-resolution study (centennial scale) has been performed on the calcareous plankton
assemblage of the Holocene portion of the Ocean Drilling Program Site 976 (Alboran Sea) …

Potential responses and resilience of Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age societies to mid-to Late Holocene climate change on the southern Iberian Peninsula

M Weinelt, J Kneisel, J Schirrmacher… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In this investigation, we use a socio-environmental multi-proxy approach to empirically test
hypotheses of recurrent resilience cycles and the role of climate forcing in shaping such …

Making the most of soils in archaeology. A review

RB Salisbury, ID Bull, S Cereda, E Draganits… - Archaeologia …, 2022 - JSTOR
Sediments serve as an archive of human and animal activity and environmental conditions
through their physical and chemical properties as well as captured biological traces …

A multicentennial mode of North Atlantic climate variability throughout the Last Glacial Maximum

M Prange, L Jonkers, U Merkel, M Schulz… - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Paleoclimate proxy records from the North Atlantic region reveal substantially greater
multicentennial temperature variability during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) compared to …

The concept of socio-environmental transformations in prehistoric and archaic societies in the Holocene: An introduction to the special issue

J Müller, W Kirleis - The Holocene, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Transformations of human societies and environments are closely interwoven. Due to
improved possibilities of paleoecological reconstruction and archaeological methods, we …