The reconstruction of millennial-scale interactions between ecosystems and societies can
provide unique and valuable references for understanding the creation of cultural …

This article reviews a selection of books published over the last decade that explore the
relationship between humans and the environment in the ancient Greek world. These …

In this study, we present the findings of a sediment core retrieved from Klisova lagoon,
Western Greece, an area with a long record of documented human presence. The recovered …

We show that long-term and comparative studies are imperative if we are to identify the
interlinkage between land use and climate and understand how vulnerabilities build over …

Climate change is a constant companion to human undertakings across time but the
diversity of human responses calls for contextual approaches. In the present chapter, we …

Recent research within Mediterranean archaeology has been increasingly concerned with
societal responses to past climate changes in the Holocene. In Greek archaeology, such …

The ninth to the fifth centuries BCE saw a series of significant historical transformations
across Cyprus, especially in the growth of towns and in developments in the countryside. In …

Interannual climate variability has for a long time been understood as a significant factor for
agricultural production in ancient Greek city-states (poleis). The impact of climate change …

This study provides a high-resolution reconstruction of the vegetation of the Argive Plain
(Peloponnese, Greece) covering 5000 years from the Early Bronze Age onwards. The well …

Scientific approaches are becoming an increasingly popular way of modeling and thinking
about the Roman economy. This chapter suggests that this move may help with creating …