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 …

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

M Walker, MJ Head, J Lowe… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Holocene, which currently spans~ 11 700 years, is the shortest series/epoch within the
geological time scale (GTS), yet it contains a rich archive of evidence in stratigraphical …

The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent

G Kathayat, H Cheng, A Sinha, L Yi, X Li, H Zhang… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The vast Indo-Gangetic Plain in South Asia has been home to some of the world's oldest
civilizations, whose fortunes ebbed and flowed with time—plausibly driven in part by shifts in …

Automated detection of archaeological mounds using machine-learning classification of multisensor and multitemporal satellite data

HA Orengo, FC Conesa… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
This paper presents an innovative multisensor, multitemporal machine-learning approach
using remote sensing big data for the detection of archaeological mounds in Cholistan …

Tropical Indian Ocean basin hydroclimate at the mid-to late-Holocene transition and the double drying hypothesis

N Scroxton, SJ Burns, D McGee, LR Godfrey… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The spatial pattern of Holocene climate anomalies is crucial to determining the mechanisms
of change, distinguishing between unforced and forced climate variability, and …

Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A summary

M Walker, P Gibbard, MJ Head… - Journal of the …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Holocene Series/Epoch is the most recent series/epoch in the geological
timescale, spanning the interval from 11,700 yr to the present day. Together with the …

[图书][B] The open sea: the economic life of the ancient Mediterranean world from the Iron Age to the rise of Rome

J Manning - 2018 - degruyter.com
In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization

KD Morrison, E Hammer, O Boles, M Madella… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant
changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Killing the priest-king: Addressing egalitarianism in the Indus civilization

AS Green - Journal of archaeological research, 2021 - Springer
The cities of the Indus civilization were expansive and planned with large-scale architecture
and sophisticated Bronze Age technologies. Despite these hallmarks of social complexity …

Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements

A Singh, KJ Thomsen, R Sinha, JP Buylaert… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Urbanism in the Bronze-age Indus Civilisation (~ 4.6–3.9 thousand years before the present,
ka) has been linked to water resources provided by large Himalayan river systems, although …