Little Ice Age wetting of interior Asian deserts and the rise of the Mongol Empire

AE Putnam, DE Putnam, L Andreu-Hayles… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The degree to which warming of the planet will alter Asia's water resources is an important
question for food, energy, and economic security. Here we present geological evidence …

Human-induced changes in the distribution of rainfall

AE Putnam, WS Broecker - Science Advances, 2017 - science.org
A likely consequence of global warming will be the redistribution of Earth's rain belts,
affecting water availability for many of Earth's inhabitants. We consider three ways in which …

Climate change along the silk road and its influence on scythian cultural expansion and rise of the mongol empire

P Che, J Lan - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change and cultural exchange both influenced cultural development along the
continental Silk Road during the late Holocene, but climate change and its influence on …

Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran) in the last 6000 years

LS Shumilovskikh, K Hopper, M Djamali… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The Gorgan Plain (NE Iran) is characterized by fertile soils formed on a loess plateau and is
at present primarily exploited for intensive agriculture. However, the timing and intensity of …

Late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the Emba Delta, Kazakhstan, and coastline of the north-eastern Caspian Sea: sediment, ostracods, pollen and …

K Richards, P Mudie, A Rochon, J Athersuch… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Six cores, each approximately 10 m long, of late Pleistocene to Holocene age were studied
from the Emba Delta region in the north-eastern Caspian Sea. Radiocarbon dates provide …

Late Quaternary Ponto-Caspian dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

E Fatourou, A Kafetzidou, F Marret… - Marine …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present here the first long Quaternary record of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst
assemblages analysed from sediment cores retrieved during the International Ocean …

Between the mountains and the sea: Late Holocene Caspian Sea level fluctuations and vegetation history of the lowland forests of northern Iran

E Ramezani, A Mrotzek, MRM Mohadjer… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating of a core from northern Iran enable reconstructing
the past three millennia of vegetation dynamics of the Caspian lowlands and Alborz foothills …

Higher in the mountains: Dynamics of agro-pastoral practices in a low-latitude mountain system (Karkas Mountains, central Iran) during the Mediaeval Warm Period …

M Djamali, E Gandouin, A Sharifi, P Ponel… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
Little is known about the impact of the Mediaeval Warm Period (MWP: 950–1250 CE) and
the Little Ice Age (LIA: 1250–1850 CE) on high-altitude agro-pastoral practices and the …

Temporal change in plant communities and its relationship to soil salinity and microtopography on the Caspian Sea coast

GV Klink, IN Semenkov, YD Nukhimovskaya… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The gradual drying up of saltwater bodies creates habitats that are characterised by
changing environmental conditions and might be available only for a subset of plants from …

Spiniferites cruciformis, Pterocysta cruciformis and Galeacysta etrusca: morphology and palaeoecology

P Mudie, A Rochon, K Richards, S Ferguson… - …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Miocene to modern sediments of the Ponto-Caspian basins and Mediterranean Sea are
uniquely distinguished by presence of gonyaulacacean cysts with ellipsoid to cruciform …