Drought is the main abiotic constraint on cereal yield. Analysing physiological determinants
of yield responses to water may help in breeding for higher yield and stability under drought …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses a necessary task for assessing to which degree
the industrial period is unusual against the background of pre-industrial climate variability. It …

The spread of farming from western Asia to Europe had profound long-term social and
ecological impacts, but identification of the specific nature of Neolithic land management …

BIOME 6000 is an international project to map vegetation globally at mid‐Holocene (6000
14C yr bp) and last glacial maximum (LGM, 18,000 14C yr bp), with a view to evaluating …

An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies
of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social …

In the western Mediterranean desertification is triggered by climatic variability and
demographic disequilibrium, both of which directly and indirectly affect water budgets and …

Stable carbon isotope analysis of plant remains is a promising tool for researchers studying
palaeoclimate and past agricultural systems. The potential of the technique is clear: it offers …

A multiproxy study of sediment cores from Zoñar Lake (37° 29′ 00 ″N, 4° 41′ 22 ″W,
300 m asl) supported by 11 14C AMS dates provides the first high-resolution centennial …

The collapse and resilience of political systems in the ancient Near East and their
relationship with agricultural development have been of wide interest in archaeology and …

Por su compleja orografía y su situación geográfica, España posee una notable variedad
climática. Las diferencias espaciales de los valores térmicos medios anuales superan los …