Additional multi-proxy stalagmite evidence from northeast Namibia supports recent models of wetter conditions during the 4.2 ka Event in the Southern Hemisphere

High-Resolution Environmental Magnetism Using the Quantum Diamond Microscope (QDM): Application to a Tropical Speleothem

(2021) Roger R. Fu et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

A Bayesian test for the 4.2 ka BP abrupt climatic change event in southeast Europe and southwest Asia using structural time series analysis of paleoclimate data

(2021) Z. B. Ön et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

An uncertainty-focused database approach to extract spatiotemporal trends from qualitative and discontinuous lake-status histories

(2021) Gijs De Cort et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

El Niño/Southern Oscillation during the 4.2 ka event recorded by growth rates of corals from the North South China Sea

(2020) Shaohua Dang et al.   ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA

Holocene dynamics of the southern westerly winds over the Indian Ocean inferred from a peat dust deposition record

(2020) Chuxian Li et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The leaf wax biomarker record of a Namibian salt pan reveals enhanced summer rainfall during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition

(2020) Lukas Belz et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Searching for the 4.2 ka climate event at Lake Spore, Poland

(2020) Krzysztof Pleskot et al.   CATENA

Bubble trail and folia in cenote Zapote, Mexico: petrographic evidence for abiotic precipitation driven by CO2 degassing below the water table

(2020) Rafael López-Martínez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

The African Humid Period, rapid climate change events, the timing of human colonization, and megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar during the Holocene: Evidence from a 2m Anjohibe Cave stalagmite

(2019) Lixin Wang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The 4.2 ka BP climatic event and its cultural responses

(2019) Min Ran et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

A southern and northern control on speleothem-based Asian summer monsoon variability during MIS 4

(2019) Dianbing Liu et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Dry-lines in Southern Africa: Rediscovering the Congo Air Boundary

(2019) Emma Howard et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Climatic reconstruction at the Sannai-Maruyama site between Bond events 4 and 3—implication for the collapse of the society at 4.2 ka event

(2019) Hodaka Kawahata   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Control of insolation on stalagmite growth, rainfall, and migration of the tropical rain belt in northern Namibia over the last 100 kyr, as suggested by a rare MIS 5b-5c stalagmite from Dante Cave

(2019) L. Bruce Railsback et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The ITCZ and the Seasonal Cycle over Equatorial Africa

(2018) Sharon E. Nicholson   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Centennial- to decadal-scale monsoon precipitation variations in the upper Hanjiang River region, China over the past 6650 years

(2018) Liangcheng Tan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tropical Indo-Pacific hydroclimate response to North Atlantic forcing during the last deglaciation as recorded by a speleothem from Sumatra, Indonesia

(2018) Jennifer B. Wurtzel et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A multi-proxy climate record from a northwestern Botswana stalagmite suggesting wetness late in the Little Ice Age (1810–1820 CE) and drying thereafter in response to changing migration of the tropical rain belt or ITCZ

(2018) L. Bruce Railsback et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The timing, two-pulsed nature, and variable climatic expression of the 4.2 ka event: A review and new high-resolution stalagmite data from Namibia

(2018) L. Bruce Railsback et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Quaternary shift in southern African rainfall zones: sedimentary and geochemical data from Kalahari pans

(2018) Irka Schuller et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GEOMORPHOLOGIE

Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change

(2018) Stacy A. Carolin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution

(2018) Hylke E. Beck et al.   Scientific Data

Multiple proxy analyses of a U/Th-dated stalagmite to reconstruct paleoenvironmental changes in northwestern Madagascar between 370CE and 1300CE

(2017) Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Neolithic phytolith and charcoal records of human activities and vegetation change in Shijiahe culture, Tanjialing site, China

(2017) Xiao Hong Zhu et al.   PLoS One

Late Pleistocene-Holocene vegetation and climate change in the Middle Kalahari, Lake Ngami, Botswana

(2017) Carlos E. Cordova et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Speleothem Architectural Analysis: Integrated approach for stalagmite-based paleoclimate research

(2017) Javier Martín-Chivelet et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

The Indian monsoon variability and civilization changes in the Indian subcontinent

(2017) Gayatri Kathayat et al.   Science Advances

Stalagmite multi-proxy evidence of wet and dry intervals in northeastern Namibia: Linkage to latitudinal shifts of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and changing solar activity from AD 1400 to 1950

(2016) Ny Riavo G Voarintsoa et al.   HOLOCENE

Weak monsoon event at 4.2 ka recorded in sediment from Lake Rara, Himalayas

(2016) Atsunori Nakamura et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?

(2015) Arash Sharifi et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Glacial–interglacial temperature change in the tropical West Pacific: A comparison of stalagmite-based paleo-thermometers

(2015) A. Nele Meckler et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Drip water isotopes in semi-arid karst: Implications for speleothem paleoclimatology

(2014) Mark O. Cuthbert et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Caves in caves: evolution of post-depositional macroholes in stalagmites

(2014) Nurit Shtober-Zisu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

Aragonite-Calcite Speleothems: Identifying Original and Diagenetic Features

(2014) C. Perrin et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Late Holocene hydrology inferred from lacustrine sediments of Laguna Cháltel (southeastern Argentina)

(2014) C. Ohlendorf et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

(2013) Hai Cheng et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Layer-bounding surfaces in stalagmites as keys to better paleoclimatological histories and chronologies

(2013) L. Bruce Railsback et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age

(2013) Hillary R. Sletten et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Central southern Africa at the time of the African Humid Period: a new analysis of Holocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimate data

(2013) S.L. Burrough et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A Stalagmite record of Holocene Indonesian–Australian summer monsoon variability from the Australian tropics

(2013) Rhawn F. Denniston et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Extratropical Cooling, Interhemispheric Thermal Gradients, and Tropical Climate Change

(2012) John C.H. Chiang et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A dramatic climatic transition at ~4000 cal. yr BP and its cultural responses in Chinese cultural domains

(2012) Fenggui Liu et al.   HOLOCENE

The influence of Indian Ocean atmospheric circulation on Warm Pool hydroclimate during the Holocene epoch

(2012) J. E. Tierney et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years

(2011) Enno Schefuß et al.   NATURE

Environmental archaeology on Longshan Culture (4500–4000 aBP) at Yuhuicun Site in Bengbu, Anhui Province

(2010) Guangsheng Zhang et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa

(2009) B.M. Chase et al.   GEOLOGY

A 35ka pollen and isotope record of environmental change along the southern margin of the Kalahari from a stalagmite and animal dung deposits in Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

(2009) G.A. Brook et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Increasing Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise

(2009) M. L. Griffiths et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climatic and environmental controls on speleothem oxygen-isotope values

(2009) Matthew S. Lachniet   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

(2008) S. Kro pelin et al.   SCIENCE