Long Term Population, City Size and Climate Trends in the Fertile Crescent: A First Approximation

Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon Chronology, Cultural Change, and the 8.2 ka Event

(2016) J van der Plicht et al.   RADIOCARBON

Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy

(2015) Jonathan R. Dean et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Bronze and Iron Ages (∼3600–600 BCE) in the Southern Levant Based on Palynological Records

(2015) Dafna Langgut et al.   RADIOCARBON

Drought stress variability in ancient Near Eastern agricultural systems evidenced by  13C in barley grain

(2014) S. Riehl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of Scaling in Cities

(2013) L. M. A. Bettencourt   SCIENCE

Mapping patterns of long-term settlement in Northern Mesopotamia at a large scale

(2012) B. H. Menze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

(2012) D. J. Kennett et al.   SCIENCE

Mid-Holocene climate variations revealed by high-resolution speleothem records from Soreq Cave, Israel and their correlation with cultural changes

(2011) Miryam Bar-Matthews et al.   HOLOCENE

Climatic, vegetation and cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean during the mid-Holocene environmental transition

(2011) Neil Roberts et al.   HOLOCENE

Climate in the eastern Mediterranean, and adjacent regions, during the past 6000 years – A review

(2011) Martin Finné et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Climate on the southern Black Sea coast during the Holocene: implications from the Sofular Cave record

(2011) O.M. Göktürk et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Vegetation development in the Middle Euphrates and Upper Jazirah (Syria/Turkey) during the Bronze Age

(2010) Katleen Deckers et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

‘PALEOVAN’, International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): site survey results and perspectives

(2009) Thomas Litt et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

New ice core evidence for a volcanic cause of the A.D. 536 dust veil

(2008) L. B. Larsen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climate deterioration in the Eastern Mediterranean as revealed by ion microprobe analysis of a speleothem that grew from 2.2 to 0.9 ka in Soreq Cave, Israel

(2008) Ian J. Orland et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH