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Interactions between climate change and human activities during the early to mid-Holocene in the eastern Mediterranean basins
Jean-Francois Berger
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Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lyon 2-Lumière, UMR 5600 EVS, 69007, France
Laurent Lespez
Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC), UMR CNRS 8591 LGP, France
Catherine Kuzucuoğlu
Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, UMR CNRS 8591 LGP, France
Arthur Glais
Université Caen-Basse Normandie, UMR CNRS 6554 LETG-Caen, France
Fuad Hourani
University of Jordan, Faculty of Archaeology and Tourism, Amman, Jordan
Adrien Barra
Université de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lyon 2-Lumière, UMR 5600 EVS, 69007, France
Jean Guilaine
Collége de France, Paris, France
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This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate changes in the Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives, and on their impact on prehistoric societies from the eastern to central Mediterranean (central Anatolia, Cyprus, NE and NW Greece). Our study demonstrates the reality of hydrogeomorphological responses to early Holocene RCCs in valleys and alluvial fans and lake–marsh systems. We finally question their socio-economic and geographical adaptation capacities.
This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate changes in the Mediterranean zone, which are...
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