Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

Here we present, to date, the highest‐resolved (~ 5 years) and most precisely dated
Holocene monsoon climate reconstruction for the western Chinese Loess Plateau based on …

Abstract Arid Central Asia (ACA), with its diverse landscapes of high mountains, oases, and
deserts, hosted the central routes of the Silk Roads that linked trade centers from East Asia …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Climate variability and natural hazards like floods and earthquakes can act as
environmental shocks or socioecological stressors leading to instability and suffering …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

The response of population and agriculture to abrupt climate events remains a matter of
heated debates, especially the societal collapses related to the 4.2 ka event. Long-term …

There is uncertainty regarding the resilience of modern intensive agricultural systems, given
that they have been developed recently in history (post-WWII). Historically, agricultural …

Abstract Monsoon precipitation in East China shows distinct spatial distribution and its
variability is closely linked with the changes of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) …