First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

N Dubois, É Saulnier-Talbot, K Mills… - The Anthropocene …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Lake sediments constitute natural archives of past environmental changes. Historically,
research has focused mainly on generating regional climate records, but records of human …

Rapid environmental change in African and South American tropics around 4000 years before present: a review

R Marchant, H Hooghiemstra - Earth-Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
Palaeoecological data recording a pronounced environmental shift centred about 4000
years BP are presented from tropical Africa and South America. The environmental shift is …

[LIVRE][B] Paleolimnology: the history and evolution of lake systems

AS Cohen - 2003 - books.google.com
This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …

[LIVRE][B] Radiocarbon dating: an archaeological perspective

RE Taylor, O Bar-Yosef - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

[LIVRE][B] The Maya forest garden: Eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

A Ford, R Nigh - 2016 - books.google.com
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

[HTML][HTML] the Yucatán Peninsula karst aquifer, Mexico

P Bauer-Gottwein, BRN Gondwe, G Charvet… - Hydrogeology …, 2011 - infona.pl
The Yucatán Peninsula karst aquifer is one of the most extensive and spectacular karst
aquifer systems on the planet. This transboundary aquifer system extends over an area of …

History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change

J Haldon, L Mordechai, TP Newfield… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
History and archaeology have a well-established engagement with issues of premodern
societal development and the interaction between physical and cultural environments; …

Drought, agricultural adaptation, and sociopolitical collapse in the Maya Lowlands

PMJ Douglas, M Pagani, MA Canuto… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Paleoclimate records indicate a series of severe droughts was associated with societal
collapse of the Classic Maya during the Terminal Classic period (∼ 800–950 CE). Evidence …

The nature and diversity of neotropical savanna vegetation with particular reference to the Brazilian cerrados

PA Furley - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The South and Middle American tropics contain the world's largest area of moist savanna.
Despite an apparent uniformity in appearance, floristic grou**s can be detected and four …

Collapse of Classic Maya civilization related to modest reduction in precipitation

M Medina-Elizalde, EJ Rohling - Science, 2012 - science.org
The disintegration of the Classic Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula and Central
America was a complex process that occurred over an approximately 200-year interval and …