Climate and social change at the start of the Late Antique Little Ice Age

No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

(2019) Raphael Neukom et al.   NATURE

Radiocarbon and geologic evidence reveal Ilopango volcano as source of the colossal ‘mystery’ eruption of 539/40 CE

(2019) Robert A. Dull et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Social Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters in Ancient Societies: A Test of Two Hypotheses

(2018) Peter N. Peregrine   Weather Climate and Society

The human experience of social transformation: Insights from comparative archaeology

(2018) Michelle Hegmon et al.   PLoS One

Dark Ages Cold Period: A literature review and directions for future research

(2017) Samuli Helama et al.   HOLOCENE

Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization

(2017) Peter Turchin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

(2017) Julien Emile-Geay et al.   Scientific Data

Climatic and societal impacts of a volcanic double event at the dawn of the Middle Ages

(2016) Matthew Toohey et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Explosive eruption of El Chichón volcano (Mexico) disrupted 6thcentury Maya civilization and contributed to global cooling

(2016) Kees Nooren et al.   GEOLOGY

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

(2016) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years

(2015) M. Sigl et al.   NATURE

Towards a science of past disasters

(2013) Felix Riede   NATURAL HAZARDS