Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

EJ Rohling, G Marino, KM Grant - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years–A review

M Finné, K Holmgren, HS Sundqvist, E Weiberg… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The eastern Mediterranean, with its long archaeological and historical records, provides a
unique opportunity to study human responses to climate variability. We review paleoclimate …

Holocene climate and cultural evolution in late prehistoric–early historic West Asia

M Staubwasser, H Weiss - Quaternary Research, 2006 - cambridge.org
The precipitation climatology and the underlying climate mechanisms of the eastern
Mediterranean, West Asia, and the Indian subcontinent are reviewed, with emphasis on …

From greenhouse to icehouse; organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as paleoenvironmental indicators in the Paleogene

A Sluijs, J Pross, H Brinkhuis - Earth-Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Dinoflagellates are an important component of the extant eukaryotic plankton. Their organic-
walled, hypnozygotic cysts (dinocysts) provide a rich, albeit incomplete, history of the group …

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 …

The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages

BL Drake - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Between the 13th and 11th centuries BCE, most Greek Bronze Age Palatial centers were
destroyed and/or abandoned. The following centuries were typified by low population levels …

The 8200 cal BP abrupt environmental change and the Neolithic transition: a Mediterranean perspective

JF Berger, J Guilaine - Quaternary international, 2009 - Elsevier
A major environmental and societal event struck the Mediterranean basin during the 9th
millennium cal BP. A sudden and major climatic crisis occurred in the Northern Hemisphere …

Drought and societal collapse 3200 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean: a review

D Kaniewski, J Guiot… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the goals of climate scientists is to understand how climate shifts may have changed
the course of history and influenced culture at millennial timescales. Repeatedly …

A paleoclimate record with tephrochronological age control for the last glacial-interglacial cycle from Lake Ohrid, Albania and Macedonia

H Vogel, B Wagner, G Zanchetta, R Sulpizio… - Journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Lake Ohrid is probably of Pliocene age, and the oldest extant lake in Europe. In this study
climatic and environmental changes during the last glacial-interglacial cycle are …

Late Glacial–Holocene climate variability at the south-eastern margin of the Aegean Sea

MV Triantaphyllou, P Ziveri, A Gogou, G Marino… - Marine Geology, 2009 - Elsevier
New micropaleontological, palynological, and geochemical results from a relatively shallow
(∼ 500 m) sediment core (NS-14) in the south-eastern Aegean Sea provide a detailed …