A series of recent publications, both scholarly and popular, has identified the physical
environment as a primary historical agent in the Roman Empire's development and decline …

Predicting global change mitigations based on environmental variables, like temperature
and water availability, although yielding insightful hypothesis still lacks the integration of …

Study of the climate in the Mediterranean basin during different historical periods has taken
on a particular importance, particularly regarding its role (together with other factors) in the …

An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire's economy
was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its provinces was …

Three parallel overlap** cores have been taken in the Albanian side of Lake Shkodra
(Albania/Montenegro). The chronological frame of the record, spanning approximately the …

A multiproxy approach based on archaeobotanical, organic residue and isotopic analyses
was carried out on materials from 12 Medieval archaeological sites in Tuscany (central Italy) …

This paper introduces the high resolution palynological analyses carried out on samples
from four cores drilled in the coastal plains of the Cornia and Pecora rivers, southern …

Abstract The city of Herculaneum (Naples, southern Italy), buried by the volcanic eruption of
Mount Somma-Vesuvius in 79 ad, is a key site for understanding the timber economy during …

The substantial volume of timber recovered from the aftermath of the eruption of Vesuvius in
79 AD offers a valuable resource for gaining insights into the timber trade during Roman …

Anthracological analysis has been carried out in the Medieval site of Miranduolo, a rural
settlement in southern Tuscany with a sequence of occupation between the 7th and 14th …