Global archaeomagnetic data: The state of the art and future challenges

MC Brown, G Hervé, M Korte, A Genevey - Physics of the Earth and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Archaeomagnetic data are fundamental for our understanding of the evolution of Earth's
magnetic field on centennial to millennial timescales. From the earliest studies of the …

Solar activity during the Holocene: the Hallstatt cycle and its consequence for grand minima and maxima

IG Usoskin, Y Gallet, F Lopes, GA Kovaltsov… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Aims. Cosmogenic isotopes provide the only quantitative proxy for analyzing the long-term
solar variability over a centennial timescale. While essential progress has been achieved in …

Archaeomagnetism in the Levant and Mesopotamia reveals the largest changes in the geomagnetic field

R Shaar, Y Gallet, Y Vaknin, L Gonen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of geomagnetic field intensity prior to the era of direct instrumental
measurements relies on paleointensity analysis of rocks and archaeological materials that …

Large geomagnetic field anomalies revealed in Bronze to Iron Age archeomagnetic data from Tel Megiddo and Tel Hazor, Israel

R Shaar, L Tauxe, H Ron, Y Ebert, S Zuckerman… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Geomagnetic field measurements from the past few centuries show heightened secular
variation activity in the southern hemisphere associated with the south Atlantic anomaly …

The innovation and adoption of iron in the ancient Near East

NL Erb-Satullo - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2019 - Springer
This review synthesizes field research, textual analysis, and archaeometric data to evaluate
different explanations for the spread of iron in the ancient Near East. Current evidence …

Six centuries of geomagnetic intensity variations recorded by royal Judean stamped jar handles

E Ben-Yosef, M Millman, R Shaar… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Earth's magnetic field, one of the most enigmatic physical phenomena of the planet, is
constantly changing on various time scales, from decades to millennia and longer. The …

The Earth's magnetic field in Jerusalem during the Babylonian destruction: A unique reference for field behavior and an anchor for archaeomagnetic dating

Y Vaknin, R Shaar, Y Gadot, Y Shalev, O Lipschits… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Paleomagnetic analysis of archaeological materials is crucial for understanding the
behavior of the geomagnetic field in the past. As it is often difficult to accurately date the …

A Bayesian iterative geomagnetic model with universal data input: Self-consistent spherical harmonic evolution for the geomagnetic field over the last 4000 years

P Arneitz, R Egli, R Leonhardt, K Fabian - Physics of the Earth and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes of the Earth's magnetic field have been observed with varying spatial and
temporal resolution since the middle ages by means of compasses, and later by refined …

Geomagnetic field intensity changes in the Central Mediterranean between 1500 BCE and 150 CE: Implications for the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly evolution

M Rivero-Montero, M Gómez-Paccard… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The magnitude and origin of the Levantine Iron Age geomagnetic Anomaly (LIAA), which
spanned the first half of the first millennium before the common era, are not yet well …

Geomagnetic field intensity during the first millennium BCE from royal Judean storage jars: Constraining the duration of the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly

E Hassul, R Shaar, Y Vaknin, A Agnon… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The rich and extensively studied archaeological record of the Near East provides an
opportunity to develop a comprehensive archaeomagnetic dataset for exploring the …