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 …

The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

D Langgut, R Cheddadi, JS Carrión… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Olive (Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient
Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin …

Rapid climate changes and human dynamics during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean (Lower Strymon Valley, northern Greece)

A Glais, L Lespez, JA López-Sáez, Z Tsirtsoni… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The study was conducted in the southern part of the lower Strymon valley, in northern
Greece, and revealed up to 25 m of fluvio-lacustrine sediments deposited over the last …

The Medieval climate anomaly in the Mediterranean region

S Lüning, L Schulte, S Garcés‐Pastor… - Paleoceanography …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a preindustrial phase of pronounced
natural climate variability with a core period from 1000 to 1200 CE. The paper presents a …

Spatial distribution, source identification, and risk assessment of polychlorinated organic pollutants (PCDD/Fs and DL-PCBs) in the sediments of the largest urban …

B Güzel, K Çetintürk, O Canlı, A Karademir - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Iznik lake is the biggest lake in the Marmara region, which is the most industrialized and
populated area of Türkiye. The lake is one of Türkiye's most important water supply areas …

High-resolution Bronze Age palaeoenvironmental change in the Eastern Mediterranean: exploring the links between climate and societies

CJ Hazell, MJ Pound, EP Hocking - Palynology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bronze Age archaeological records from the eastern Mediterranean identify two periods of
widespread so-called societal 'collapse'between ca. 4.50–ca. 4.20 cal ka BP and ca. 3.50 …

Not the end of the world? Post-classical decline and recovery in rural Anatolia

N Roberts, M Cassis, O Doonan, W Eastwood, H Elton… - Human Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Between the foundation of Constantinople as capital of the eastern half of the Roman
Empire in 330 CE and its sack by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 CE, the Byzantine Empire …

Late Pleistocene-Holocene sea level and climate changes in the Gulf of Saros: Evidence from seismostratigraphic record and sediment core data

KK Eriş, C Yakupoğlu, D Biltekin, N Yakupoğlu… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
A detailed record of sea level changes and climate oscillations in the Gulf of Saros during
the late Pleistocene to the Holocene is provided by high-resolution seismic reflection profiles …

Active subaquatic fault segments in Lake Iznik along the middle strand of the North Anatolian Fault, NW Turkey

R Gastineau, J De Sigoyer, P Sabatier, SC Fabbri… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The seismic activity of the middle strand of the North Anatolian Fault (MNAF), Northwestern
Turkey, is debated because of its quiescence during the instrumental period, in contrast to a …

Palynology, palaeoclimate and chronology from the Saalian Glacial to Saint-Germain II interstadial from two long cores at the limit between the Mediterranean and …

SAG Leroy, P Henry, O Peyron, F Rostek… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Marmara region (NW Turkey) has a transitional vegetation and climate
between the Mediterranean one and the Euxinian one. For the last Interglacial period or …