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 …

The study was conducted in the southern part of the lower Strymon valley, in northern
Greece, and revealed up to 25 m of fluvio-lacustrine sediments deposited over the last …

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 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 …

Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) is thought to be more than 1.2 million years old and host
more than 300 endemic species. As a target of the International Continental scientific Drilling …

Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a preindustrial phase of pronounced
natural climate variability with a core period from 1000 to 1200 CE. The paper presents a …

Soils are key to ecosystems and human societies, and their critical importance requires a
better understanding of how they evolve through time. However, identifying the role of …

Many events and developments in human history have been suspected to be, at least partly,
influenced by climate and environmental changes. In order to investigate climate impacts on …

The 4.2 ka BP event is a hypothesized global drought and cooling event and is claimed to
be supported by proxy records from a wide range of geographical locations. However …