Article
Geography, Physical
Yunping Song, Hai Xu, Jianghu Lan, Jin Zhang, Kang 'en Zhou, Siwei Shi, Jing Wang, Chukun Hu, Jun Cheng, Bing Hong, Xinying Zhou
Summary: Understanding past climate and vegetation changes is crucial in assessing the impact of climate and human activity on regional vegetation compositions. Research shows that subtropical East Asia has experienced a shift from evergreen broad-leaved forests to more open landscapes since the late Holocene, which is attributed to increased human activities during that period.
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
P. P. Mohapatra, A. Stephen, P. Singh, S. Prasad, K. Anupama
Summary: This study focuses on palynological and sedimentary records in southeastern India over the past 11040 years, with a particular emphasis on pollen data analysis from the Porayar sediment core. The research reveals transitions from lower to more stable sea levels, and infers regional vegetation changes that provide clues for climate interpretation.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Shaohua Yu, Fang Chen, Xia Jing, Chixin Chen, Chang Zhuang, Qiang Li, Yang Zhou, Zhen Xia, Huayang Gan, Kathrin Fisch, Joanna J. Waniek
Summary: The rapid expansion of the Pearl River Delta Plain in recent millennia was primarily attributed to intensified human activities rather than changes in climate variables, as indicated by a study of a marine core from the northern South China Sea. The findings suggest that human activities significantly influence the formation and development of deltas, highlighting the potential impact of ongoing global warming and human activities on deltas worldwide.
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Nurit Weber, Gilad Antler, Boaz Lazar, Mordechai Stein, Yoseph Yechieli, Ittai Gavrieli
Summary: The rapid retreat of the Dead Sea over the past four decades has exposed unique structures of massive gypsum along the shores. These structures are associated with the activity of Ein Qedem-type saline springs discharging Ca-chloride brine to the lake. Field observations, radiocarbon dating, and isotope analysis suggest that the formation of the gypsum structures is related to the mixing of brines from the Dead Sea and ancient Ein Qedem type brine.
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Steven Mithen, Karen Wicks
Summary: This study examines the combined impacts of abrupt climate events and gradual sea level change on Mesolithic communities in northern Britain, finding that hunter-gatherers in this region were especially vulnerable to environmental change. Differences in conclusions about the impacts of abrupt climate events on Holocene hunter-gatherer communities across Europe are attributed to variations in specific ecological settings, cultural repertoires, and social environments.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Wen Li, Guijin Mu, Yongchong Lin, Dongliang Zhang
Summary: This study reconstructed the Holocene climate change pattern in the Lop Nur region using multiple climatic proxies and found that the past 8400 years can be divided into two distinct stages, with a abrupt climate shift around 4000 cal. yr B.P. The late Holocene climatic instability in ACA was modulated by decreasing temperatures influenced by Northern Hemisphere summer insolation, as well as a more negative trend of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and an enhanced El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Geography, Physical
Marina S. Lyashchevskaya, Valentina B. Bazarova, Nataliya A. Dorofeeva, Christian Leipe
Summary: This article provides an analytical review of the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological records from the southern part of Primorye over the past 21,000 years. The study shows synchronicity between climate change and cultural transition, migration, and changes in population numbers and/or subsistence strategies.
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lixiong Xiang, Xiaozhong Huang, Mingjie Sun, Virginia N. Panizzo, Chong Huang, Min Zheng, Xuemei Chen, Fahu Chen
Summary: This study reconstructed the climate history of the Altai Mountain region during the middle to late Holocene by analyzing sediments from Kanas Lake and neighboring Tiewaike Lake. The results showed that the warm climate during 6.5-3.6 kyr promoted human migration and cultural exchange during the Bronze Age.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Biology
T. Rowan McLaughlin, Magdalena Gomez-Puche, Joao Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, Javier Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo
Summary: This study reconstructs the long-term demographic patterns of the Iberian region using archaeological and population statistics data, finding that late glacial population growth was hindered by arid conditions, while population size and density increased during the transition from the Early to Middle Holocene, partly due to increased reliance on marine and estuarine food sources.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Chung Hoai Nguyen, K. Anggi Hapsari, Asmadi Saad, Supiandi Sabiham, Hermann Behling
Summary: This study reconstructs the vegetation and environmental changes of riparian wetlands in the Harapan forest of Sumatra through multi-proxy paleoecological analysis. The research reveals the transition from riparian and herbaceous vegetation to freshwater swamps and upland forests under the influence of climate change and human activities. The study also suggests the presence of small-scale agriculture in the area.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Geography, Physical
Mohan Kumar, Korobi Saikia, Shailesh Agrawal, Ruby Ghosh, Sheikh Nawaz Ali, Md Arif, Dhruv Sen Singh, Anupam Sharma, Binita Phartiyal, Sunil Bajpai
Summary: This study synthesizes various records to determine the driving factors of C-3/C-4 plant variability in a late Quaternary lake archive in the northern Gangetic Plain, India. The findings reveal nine climate-driven shifts in vegetation over the last 15.2 ka and show that temperature and rainfall jointly influence the diversity and distribution of C-4 plants in the region.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Caio Alves de Moraes, Marcondes Lima da Costa, Alexandre Guida Navarro, Leonardo Boiadeiro Ayres Negrao, Glayce Jholy Souza da Silva Valente, Herbert Pollamann, Hermann Behling
Summary: This study provides an environmental reconstruction of an archaeological site in the northern part of north-eastern Brazil, revealing the environmental changes during the Holocene period influenced by climate, relative sea-level, and human activities. The findings highlight the impact of these factors on the distribution of mangroves and river characteristics in the region.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiaolin Ren, Junjie Xu, Hui Wang, Michael Storozum, Peng Lu, Duowen Mo, Tuoyu Li, Jianguo Xiong, Tristram R. Kidder
Summary: Researchers found that there were climate changes during the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in the Central Plains of China, but the aridification in the early Bronze Age did not lead to a collapse in population. Pollen, radiocarbon dates, and archaeobotanical records indicate that the development of agriculture and complex societies under dry climate conditions may have contributed to a dramatic increase in population.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geography, Physical
Guoqiang Ding, Jianhui Chen, Huaiyu Yan, Shengrui Zhang, Yan Liu, Aifeng Zhou, Panpan Ji, Shengqian Chen, Feiya Lv, Wensheng Zhang, Rui Ma, Ruijin Chen, Fahu Chen
Summary: Understanding the historical changes in vegetation under the influence of natural climate change and human activities in the semi-arid region of northern China is crucial for predicting future vegetation change and addressing ecological problems. This study reconstructed the vegetation succession in the region since the mid-Holocene using fossil pollen samples and carbon dating. The results indicate that natural climate change primarily controlled vegetation development during 8-1 ka, while human activities became the dominant driver of vegetation change after approximately 1 ka.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
N. Weber, B. Lazar, I. Gavrieli, Y. Yechieli, M. Stein
Summary: Research shows that the formation of gypsum structures in the hypersaline Dead Sea is closely related to North Atlantic cooling events and grand solar minima, indicating a high sensitivity of regional hydrology to global solar-related events. The temporal occurrence and numbers of gypsum structures seem to follow the Hallstatt Cycle, reaching minima around 3,000-2,000 years ago.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geography, Physical
Safiyeh Haghani, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Sarkar Khdir, Keivan Kabiri, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni, Hamid Alizadeh Ketek Lahijani
Article
Geography, Physical
Safiyeh Haghani, Suzanne A. G. Leroy
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
(2020)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Wenying Jiang, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Shiling Yang, Enlou Zhang, Luo Wang, Xiaoxiao Yang, Patrick Rioual
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2019)
Article
Geography, Physical
Alessio Palmisano, Jessie Woodbridge, C. Neil Roberts, Andrew Bevan, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Shennan, Rachid Cheddadi, Raphael Greenberg, David Kaniewski, Dafna Langgut, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Thomas Litt, Andrea Miebach
Article
Geography, Physical
Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Lourdes Lopez-Merino, Nina Kozina
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2019)
Article
Geography, Physical
S. A. G. Leroy, A. Amini, M. W. Gregg, E. Marinova, R. Bendrey, Y. Zha, A. Naderi Beni, H. Fazeli Nashli
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2019)
Article
Geography, Physical
Thomas M. Hoyle, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Lourdes Lopez-Merino, Daniel P. Miggins, Anthony A. P. Koppers
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Geography, Physical
Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Santiago R. Giralt
Summary: Central Asia, with its high mountains, is a data poor area located between Europe and eastern Asia. However, recent research on pollen records over the last 5600 years has shown significant cold and humid phases, indicating the driving role of Westerlies in the region. The study also confirms that human activities were more intense during the Mid and Late Bronze Age and in the past 800 years, with Issyk-Kul likely playing an important role in the ancient Silk Road.
Article
Geography, Physical
Christopher Cleal, Heather S. Pardoe, Christopher M. Berry, Borja Cascales-Minana, Basil A. S. Davis, Jose B. Diez, Mariana Filipova-Marinova, Thomas Giesecke, Jason Hilton, Dimiter Ivanov, Evelyn Kustatscher, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Jennifer C. McElwain, Stanislav Oplustil, Mihai Emilian Popa, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Ellen Stolle, Barry A. Thomas, Dieter Uhl
Summary: Palaeobotany and palynology are key sources for studying vegetation diversity dynamics over geological time, but factors other than vegetation diversity can affect plant fossil diversity. Local-scale vegetation diversity is challenging to determine from the fossil record, while landscape-scale and regional-scale vegetation diversities are more reliably determined usually at the family level.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Sifan A. Koriche, Sri D. Nandini-Weiss, Matthias Prange, Joy S. Singarayer, Klaus Arpe, Hannah L. Cloke, Michael Schulz, Pepijn Bakker, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Michael Coe
Summary: This study examines the impact of Caspian Sea area on climate using a fully coupled climate model, revealing significant changes in regional atmospheric water budget and temperatures. The results show that variations in Caspian Sea area have wide-ranging impacts on climate that should be incorporated into climate model simulations, including paleo and future scenarios.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
(2021)
Article
Geography, Physical
Heather S. Pardoe, Christopher J. Cleal, Christopher M. Berry, Borja Cascales-Minana, Basil A. S. Davis, Jose B. Diez, Mariana Filipova-Marinova, Thomas Giesecke, Jason Hilton, Dimiter Ivanov, Evelyn Kustatscher, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Jennifer C. McElwain, Stanislav Oplustil, Mihai Emilian Popa, Leyla J. Seyfullah, Ellen Stolle, Barry A. Thomas, Dieter Uhl
Summary: Studying biodiversity involves determining diversity of past floras through various sampling strategies and metrics. Classificatory techniques and ordination methods are commonly used for identifying spatial and stratigraphical diversity patterns. Choosing the appropriate analysis method is crucial depending on the research question.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2021)
Review
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Raisa Gracheva, Andrei Medvedev
Summary: This article presents a state of the art of the potential natural threats to the regional environment in the Caspian Sea and highlights the need for improved mitigation measures and a Caspian database of natural hazards and disasters.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Suzanne Alice Ghislaine Leroy, Klaus Arpe, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Jing Wu
CLIMATE OF THE PAST
(2020)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Nizamettin Kazanci, Zeynep Ergun, Kaan Iren, Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Sonay Boyraz Arslan, Salim Oncel, Koray Koc, Alper Gurbuz
TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
(2019)
Article
Geology
Suzanne A. G. Leroy, Francoise Chalie, Frank P. Wesselingh, Mohammad Saeed Sanjani, Hamid A. K. Lahijani, John Athersuch, Ulrich Struck, Gill Plunkett, Paula J. Reimer, Parisa Habibi, Keivan Kabiri, Safiyeh Haghani, Abdolmajid Naderi Beni, Klaus Arpe
Article
Anthropology
Julia Becher, Alex Schoeman, Gavin Whitelaw, Stephen Buckley, Jean-Pierre Celliers, Sara Cafisso, Matthias Belser, Maxime Rageot, Cynthianne Spiteri
Summary: This study represents the first application of Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) to southern African early farming pottery to gain a deeper understanding of past human behavior and subsistence patterns. The study found evidence of dairy processing and multi-purpose functionality of the ceramics. It also discovered potential medicinal use and the involvement of dung in pottery sealing and mending.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2024)
Article
Anthropology
Jon Clindaniel, Matthew Magnani
Summary: Large sources of digital trace data have become important in the study of material culture. The authors introduce a computational method to observe digital formation processes and highlight the importance of accounting for these processes in studies utilizing digital trace data.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2024)
Article
Anthropology
Rebecca A. G. Reid, Miranda M. E. Jans, Lesley A. Chesson, Rebecca J. Taylor, Gregory E. Berg
Summary: Chemical treatment of skeletal remains can reduce overall DNA quality and quantity but has no significant impact on stable isotope ratio analysis. Examination of treated and untreated human remains through histological and stable isotope analysis reveals that treated remains exhibit better preservation compared to untreated remains. Stable isotope ratio analysis is viable for both treated and untreated remains, regardless of their origin.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2024)
Article
Anthropology
Laura Tome, Eneko Iriartec, Antonio Blanco-Gonzalez, Margarita Jambrina-Enriquez, Natalia Eguez, Antonio V. Herrera-Herrera, Carolina Mallola
Summary: This paper presents the outcomes of a microcontextual geoarchaeological study conducted on earthen dwellings from the Early Iron Age village of Cerro de San Vicente. The study employed soil micromorphology, lipid biomarker analysis, XRD, and XRF analyses to investigate various aspects of the dwellings, including construction materials, site formation processes, and daily life practices. The results have shed light on the construction layers, floor use, maintenance, repaving, periods of abandonment and decay, and the presence of lipid biomarkers associated with dwelling functionality. The study significantly contributes to our understanding of ancient construction practices and the utilization of domestic spaces during the Early Iron Age.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2024)