Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

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 …

We test between cooperative and extractive theories of the origins of government. We use
river shifts in southern Iraq as a natural experiment, in a new archeological panel dataset. A …

Marine gateways play a critical role in the exchange of water, heat, salt and nutrients
between oceans and seas. As a result, changes in gateway geometry can significantly alter …

The Levant constitutes an important region for assessing linkages between climate and
societal changes throughout the course of human history. However, large uncertainties …

In the Mediterranean there is often no clear time gap separating an early-Holocene period of
nature-dominated environmental change from a human-dominated late-Holocene one. This …

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 …

On the basis of a multi-proxy approach and a strategy combining lacustrine and marine
records along a north–south transect, data collected in the central Mediterranean within the …

The influence of obliquity, the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis, on incoming solar radiation at
low latitudes is small, yet many tropical and subtropical palaeoclimate records reveal a clear …

A mid-to late-Holocene synthesis of fire activity from the Mediterranean basin explores the
linkages among fire, climate variability and seasonality through several climatic and …