How well do deep-sea sedimentary archives track erosion in upland sources, driven by
climatic change or tectonic forcing? Located on the western edge of South Asian monsoon …

The high resolution Holocene paleomonsoon records from Northwest (NW) Himalaya are
limited. The carbon isotope (δ 13 C), Total organic carbon (TOC) and pollen analysis were …

The Holocene is probably the most intensively studied series/epoch within the geological
record, and embodies a wide array of geomorphological, climatic, biotic and archaeological …

Climate change has been suggested as a possible cause for the decline of urban centers of
the Indus Civilization∼ 4000 yr ago, but extant paleoclimatic evidence has been derived …

Concerns about the regional impact of global climate change in a warming scenario have
highlighted the gaps in our understanding of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM, also …

In Arabia, the first half of the sixth century CE was marked by the demise of Himyar, the
dominant power in Arabia until 525 CE. Important social and political changes followed …

Here we present one of the world's oldest examples of large-scale and formalized water
management, in the case of the Liangzhu culture of the Yangtze Delta, dated at 5,300–4,300 …

This paper presents a new fossil pollen record from Tso Moriri (32° 54′ N, 78° 19′ E, 4512
m asl) and seeks to reconstruct changes in mean annual precipitation (MAP) during the last …

Today the desert margins of northwest India are dry and unable to support large
populations, but were densely occupied by the populations of the Indus Civilization during …

Abstract The Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) is a major global climatic phenomenon. Long-
term precipitation proxy records of the ISM, however, are often fragmented and …