Tephrostratigraphy, chronology and climatic events of the Mediterranean basin during the Holocene: an overview

G Zanchetta, R Sulpizio, N Roberts, R Cioni… - The …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
The identification and characterisation of high-frequency climatic changes during the
Holocene requires natural archives with precise and accurate chronological control, which is …

The marine isotope stage 1–5 cryptotephra record of Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Towards a detailed tephrostratigraphic framework for the Eastern Mediterranean …

S Wulf, MJ Hardiman, RA Staff, A Koutsodendris… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The iconic climate archive of Tenaghi Philippon (TP), NE Greece, allows the study of short-
term palaeoclimatic and environmental change throughout the past 1.3 Ma. To provide high …

The tempo of Holocene climatic change in the eastern Mediterranean region: new high-resolution crater-lake sediment data from central Turkey

N Roberts, JM Reed, MJ Leng, C Kuzucuoğlu… - The …, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
This study presents results from a multi-proxy analysis of cores taken in a crater-lake
sequence from Eski Acigöl in centr-al Turkey which cover the period from pre-c. 16000 cal …

[HTML][HTML] The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)

K Douka, Z Jacobs, C Lane, R Grün, L Farr… - Journal of Human …, 2014 - Elsevier
The 1950s excavations by Charles McBurney in the Haua Fteah, a large karstic cave on the
coast of northeast Libya, revealed a deep sequence of human occupation. Most subsequent …

Identifying the volcanic eruption depicted in a neolithic painting at Çatalhöyük, Central Anatolia, Turkey

AK Schmitt, M Danišík, E Aydar, E Şen, İ Ulusoy… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
A mural excavated at the Neolithic Çatalhöyük site (Central Anatolia, Turkey) has been
interpreted as the oldest known map. Dating to∼ 6600 BCE, it putatively depicts an …

A tale of two lakes: a multi‐proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey

N Roberts, SL Allcock, F Arnaud… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Individual palaeoenvironmental records represent a combination of regional‐scale (eg
climatic) and site‐specific local factors. Here we compare multiple climate proxies from two …

Acigöl rhyolite field, Central Anatolia (part 1): high-resolution dating of eruption episodes and zircon growth rates

AK Schmitt, M Danišík, NJ Evans, W Siebel… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2011 - Springer
Protracted pre-eruptive zircon residence is frequently detected in continental rhyolites and
can conflict with thermal models, indicating briefer magma cooling durations if scaled to …

Kaletepe Deresi 3 (Turkey): Archaeological evidence for early human settlement in Central Anatolia

L Slimak, SL Kuhn, H Roche, D Mouralis… - Journal of Human …, 2008 - Elsevier
Located in the Central Anatolian Volcanic Province, Kaletepe Deresi 3 was discovered in
the summer of 2000 and has been under investigation since that time. Volcanic activity in the …

Fire, climate and the origins of agriculture: micro‐charcoal records of biomass burning during the last glacial–interglacial transition in Southwest Asia

R Turner, N Roberts, WJ Eastwood… - … : Published for the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates changes in climate, vegetation, wildfire and human activity in
Southwest Asia during the transition to Neolithic agriculture between ca. 16 and ca. 9 ka. In …

Mediterranean tephra stratigraphy revisited: results from a long terrestrial sequence on Lesvos Island, Greece

V Margari, DM Pyle, C Bryant, PL Gibbard - Journal of Volcanology and …, 2007 - Elsevier
A composite 40.2 m sediment sequence from Megali Limni, Lesvos Island, Greece,
spanning the interval from 22 to 62 ka BP, contains six Pleistocene tephra layers, which can …