The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

M Bini, G Zanchetta, A Perşoiu, R Cartier… - Climate of the …, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a
climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies

A Palmisano, D Lawrence, MW De Gruchy… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late
Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000–2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what …

Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse

CE Richards, RC Lupton, JM Allwood - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
There is increasing concern that climate change poses an existential risk to humanity.
Understanding these worst-case scenarios is essential for good risk management. However …

Holocene hydro-climatic variability in the Mediterranean: A synthetic multi-proxy reconstruction

M Finné, J Woodbridge, I Labuhn… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Here we identify and analyze proxy data interpreted to reflect hydro-climatic variability over
the last 10,000 years from the Mediterranean region to (1) outline millennial and multi …

Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A critical comparison of climatic, environmental, and archaeological evidence for radical change during the bronze age–iron age …

B Molloy - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2023 - Springer
The globalizing connections that defined the European Bronze Age in the second
millennium BC either ended or abruptly changed in the decades around 1200 BC. The …

The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru… - Earth System …, 2018 - essd.copernicus.org
Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …

Long-term trends of land use and demography in Greece: A comparative study

E Weiberg, A Bevan, K Kouli, M Katsianis… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper offers a comparative study of land use and demographic development in
northern and southern Greece from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. Results from …

[HTML][HTML] The 4.2 ka BP event in the Levant

D Kaniewski, N Marriner, R Cheddadi, J Guiot… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
The 4.2 ka BP event is defined as a phase of environmental stress characterized by severe
and prolonged drought of global extent. The event is recorded from the North Atlantic …

Persistent warm Mediterranean surface waters during the Roman period

G Margaritelli, I Cacho, A Català, M Barra… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Reconstruction of last millennia Sea Surface Temperature (SST) evolution is challenging
due to the difficulty retrieving good resolution marine records and to the several …

Atmospheric blocking induced by the strengthened Siberian High led to drying in west Asia during the 4.2 ka BP event–a hypothesis

A Perşoiu, M Ionita, H Weiss - Climate of the Past, 2019 - cp.copernicus.org
Causal explanations for the 4.2 ka BP event are based on the amalgamation of seasonal
and annual records of climate variability that was manifest across global regions dominated …