[HTML][HTML] Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

M Chevalier, BAS Davis, O Heiri, H Seppä… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

The history of olive cultivation in the southern Levant

O Barazani, A Dag, Z Dunseth - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The olive tree (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. europaea) is one of the most
important crops across the Mediterranean, particularly the southern Levant. Its regional …

Environmental roots of the Late Bronze Age crisis

D Kaniewski, E Van Campo, J Guiot, S Le Burel, T Otto… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean,
Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and …

Climate and the Late Bronze collapse: new evidence from the southern Levant

D Langgut, I Finkelstein, T Litt - Tel Aviv, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to …

The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

D Langgut, R Cheddadi, JS Carrión… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Olive (Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient
Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin …

Drought and societal collapse 3200 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean: a review

D Kaniewski, J Guiot… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the goals of climate scientists is to understand how climate shifts may have changed
the course of history and influenced culture at millennial timescales. Repeatedly …

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 …

[BOG][B] The songs of trees: Stories from nature's great connectors

DG Haskell - 2018 - books.google.com
WINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL
HISTORY WRITING “Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a …

7000-year-old evidence of fruit tree cultivation in the Jordan Valley, Israel

D Langgut, Y Garfinkel - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
This study provides one of the earliest examples of fruit tree cultivation worldwide,
demonstrating that olive (Olea europaea) and fig (Ficus carica) horticulture was practiced as …

Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and …

JR Dean, MD Jones, MJ Leng, SR Noble… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
There is a lack of high-resolution records of hydroclimate variability in the Eastern
Mediterranean from the late glacial and early Holocene. More knowledge of the speed of …