Multicentennial cycles in continental demography synchronous with solar activity and climate stability

KW Wirtz, N Antunes, A Diachenko, J Laabs… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Human population dynamics and their drivers are not well understood, especially over the
long term and on large scales. Here, we estimate demographic growth trajectories from 9 to …

Archaeological evidence for community resilience and sustainability: a bibliometric and quantitative review

MJ Jacobson - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Archaeology is often argued to provide a unique long-term perspective on humans that can
be utilised for effective policy-making, for example, in discussions of resilience and …

Holocene hydroclimate synthesis of the Aegean: Diverging patterns, dry periods and implications for climate-society interactions

MJ Jacobson, J Seguin, M Finné - The Holocene, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The Aegean region has a wealth of archeological data originating from a long and rich
human history and is frequently used as a testbed for climate-society interactions at different …

Changes in climate drove vegetation and land use dynamics at the onset of farming in Europe

L van Vugt, E Gobet, C Morales-Molino, K Ganz… - Quaternary …, 2025 - cambridge.org
Here we present the first high-resolution continuous palaeoecological study from Greece
covering the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition at Limni Zazari, a small lake in western …

Nanoparticles in Soil Reclamation: A Review of Their Role in Reducing Soil Compaction

H Alkhaza'leh, M Rahbeh… - Air, Soil and Water …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Rapid population growth and increased use of agricultural technology have exacerbated
agrarian problems. While mechanization has improved agricultural production, the use of …

Sidestep** the heat waves and cold snaps: how does extreme climate influence agricultural labor reallocation in China

X Wei, C Zeng, Y Wang - China Agricultural Economic Review, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose In the process of making agricultural production decisions in rural households,
severe weather conditions, either extreme cold or heat, may squeeze the labor input in the …

The Climatic Resilience of the Sasanian Empire

MJ Jacobson, AL Gascoigne, D Fleitmann - Human Ecology, 2025 - Springer
Abstract The Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) has been given relatively little attention in
research on climate-society interactions when compared to the neighboring Byzantine …

Mid-to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey

X Yang, F Becker, M Nykamp, B Ludwig… - Quaternary …, 2023 - cambridge.org
From 300 BC to AD 300, the city of Pergamon underwent a profound transformation that
impacted the rural settlement patterns and the concomitant geomorphodynamics. We …

7 Recent research on climate, environment, and society in the ancient Greek world

A Bonnier - Archaeological Reports, 2023 - cambridge.org
Recent research within Mediterranean archaeology has been increasingly concerned with
societal responses to past climate changes in the Holocene. In Greek archaeology, such …

Did they leave or not? A critical perspective on the beginnings of the La Tène period in Bohemia

D Dreslerová, N Venclová, P Demján… - Archeologické …, 2022 - archeologickerozhledy.cz
One of the key unresolved questions regarding the archaeology of La Tène Europe
concerns the continuity of settlement around 400 BC. Archaeological evidence of settlement …