[HTML][HTML] Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the 'long'4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and …

J Clarke, N Brooks, EB Banning… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social
change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel …

Takarkori rock shelter (SW Libya): an archive of Holocene climate and environmental changes in the central Sahara

M Cremaschi, A Zerboni, AM Mercuri, L Olmi… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Rock shelters in the central Saharan massifs preserve anthropogenic stratigraphic
sequences that represent both a precious archive for the prehistory of the region and a …

Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery

J Dunne, AM Mercuri, RP Evershed, S Bruni… - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
The invention of thermally resistant ceramic cooking vessels around 15,000 years ago was a
major advance in human diet and nutrition 1–3, opening up new food groups and …

Olea, Juglans and Castanea: the OJC group as pollen evidence of the development of human-induced environments in the Italian peninsula

AM Mercuri, MB Mazzanti, A Florenzano… - Quaternary …, 2013 - Elsevier
Pollen data from three off-site records and twenty-six on-site (archaeological) sites are
reviewed to investigate the development of cultural landscapes through the history of the …

Mediterranean and north-African cultural adaptations to mid-Holocene environmental and climatic changes

AM Mercuri, L Sadori, P Uzquiano Ollero - The Holocene, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
In Mediterranean and north-African regions, cultural trajectories have shown trends
sometimes coincident with climatic changes. The mid Holocene was a period of intense …

From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

AM Mercuri, A Florenzano, F Burjachs… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Archaeobotany is used to discover details on local land uses in prehistoric settlements
developed during the middle and beginning of late Holocene. Six archaeological sites from …

Plant behaviour from human imprints and the cultivation of wild cereals in Holocene Sahara

AM Mercuri, R Fornaciari, M Gallinaro, S Vanin… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
The human selection of food plants cannot always have been aimed exclusively at isolating
the traits typical of domesticated species today. Each phase of global change must have …

Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

AM Mercuri, E Allevato, D Arobba, MB Mazzanti… - Review of palaeobotany …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized
by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For …

Inside the “African cattle complex”: Animal burials in the Holocene central Sahara

S Di Lernia, MA Tafuri, M Gallinaro, F Alhaique… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Cattle pastoralism is an important trait of African cultures. Ethnographic studies describe the
central role played by domestic cattle within many societies, highlighting its social and …

Genesis and evolution of the cultural landscape in central Mediterranean: the 'where, when and how'through the palynological approach

AM Mercuri - Landscape ecology, 2014 - Springer
Cultural landscapes are priority research themes addressed in many fields of knowledge.
Botanists can explore the ecological, formal and cognitive level of cultural landscapes with …