Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?

A Sharifi, A Pourmand, EA Canuel, E Ferer-Tyler… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a high-resolution (sub-decadal to centennial), multi-proxy reconstruction of
aeolian input and changes in palaeohydrological conditions based on a 13000 Yr record …

The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity

A Izdebski, J Pickett, N Roberts… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines the evidence for climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean for the
period 200–800 AD and offers hypotheses on the role of climatic fluctuations in the societal …

[KNJIGA][B] The measure of civilization: how social development decides the fate of nations

I Morris - 2013 - degruyter.com
In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and
why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of …

A tenfold slowdown in river meander migration driven by plant life

A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre - Nature Geoscience, 2020 - nature.com
Meandering rivers are diagnostic landforms of hydrologically active planets, and their
migration regulates the continental component of biogeochemical cycles that stabilize …

Chemical evidence for wine production around 4000 BCE in the Late Chalcolithic Near Eastern highlands

H Barnard, AN Dooley, G Areshian… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Archaeological excavations in the Areni-1 cave complex in southeastern Armenia revealed
installations and artifacts dating to around 4000 cal. BCE that are strongly indicative of wine …

Endemic diversity and distribution of the Iranian vascular flora across phytogeographical regions, biodiversity hotspots and areas of endemism

J Noroozi, A Talebi, M Doostmohammadi… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Endemism is one of the most important concepts in biogeography and is of high relevance
for conservation biology. Nevertheless, our understanding of patterns of endemism is still …

[KNJIGA][B] The archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid empire

R Matthews, HF Nashli - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Archaemenid Empire is the first modern
academic study to provide a synthetic, diachronic analysis of the archaeology and early …

Climate change: A driver of future conflicts in the Persian Gulf Region?

AN Beni, N Marriner, A Sharifi, J Azizpour, K Kabiri… - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Ongoing global change and its direct environmental impacts, in addition to securing
economic transition to the post-oil era, could trigger complex socio-economic and political …

Late Little Ice Age palaeoenvironmental records from the Anzali and Amirkola Lagoons (south Caspian Sea): Vegetation and sea level changes

SAG Leroy, HAK Lahijani, M Djamali… - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
Two internationally important Ramsar lagoons on the south coast of the Caspian Sea (CS)
have been studied by palynology on short sediment cores for palaeoenvironmental and …

[KNJIGA][B] The imperialisation of Assyria: an archaeological approach

BS Düring - 2020 - books.google.com
The Assyrian Empire was the first state to achieve durable domination of the Ancient Near
East, enduring some seven centuries and, eventually, controlling most of the region. Yet, we …