From mobile hunter-gatherers to a series of state societies, Mediterranean climate regions
(MED) around the world have been critical areas for human and biological evolution for …

Abstract The Willandra Lakes region sits on the southern margin of Australia's arid core and
is one of the oldest localities on the continent known to have been occupied by Australia's …

Human activities over the past 200 years have fundamentally transformed the shape of
Australia's southern Murray–Darling Basin. The arrival of British colonists in the 19th century …

Defining spaces and places in retrojective Geographical Information Systems (GIS) of land
use and occupancy is not an easy task. Research into the areas described as suitable for …

This paper follows a complete cycle of ancient desert agriculture in the arid Negev
Highlands (NH), Israel. This cycle begins with pre-anthropogenic depositional and erosive …

The Pacific coast of eastern Japan contains specific aeolian landforms of geomorphological
interest in terms of their formation processes in humid climates and Holocene …

Abandoned shorelines are an important archive used to constrain past fluctuations in the
hydrological balance of lakes around the globe. Within Australia, the shorelines preserved at …

It has long been hypothesized that the last glacial maximum (LGM) oversaw cold, arid, windy
climates across southern Australia, and that these were driven by intensification and …

This chapter discusses the major types of sand dunes and sand seas (ergs).
Itexaminesthefollowingdunetypes: barchans, transverseridges, reversingdunes, zibars …

Clay dunes are characterized by high content of silt and clay and they are both a unique
aeolian landform and an important paleoenvironmental archive attesting to changing …