In addition to being of interest to ancient Greek and Roman historians, the site of Philippi, NE
Greece, has long been noted in Quaternary circles for providing the longest continuous …

A review of seven outstanding issues on Mediterranean palaeoenvironments is presented.
These are related to the dominant orbital pacing of climate variability, the length of the …

Environmental theories of African faunal evolution state that important evolutionary changes
during the Pliocene–Pleistocene interval (the last ca. 5.3 million years) were mediated by …

High-resolution pollen analysis of Alborán Sea core MD95-2043 provides a 48-ka
continuous vegetation record that can be directly correlated with sea surface and deep …

The first complex, highly organised, state-level societies emerged in the Afro-Asiatic
monsoon belt and northern South America during the 6th and early 5th millennia BP. This …

Organic-rich sedimentary units called sapropels have formed repeatedly in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, in response to variations of solar radiation. Sapropel formation is due to …

The influence of obliquity, the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis, on incoming solar radiation at
low latitudes is small, yet many tropical and subtropical palaeoclimate records reveal a clear …

Recent studies suggest increasing sensitivity to orbital variations across the Eocene-
Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse climate transition. However, climate simulations and …

Enhanced summer insolation during the early and mid-Holocene drove increased
precipitation and widespread expansion of vegetation across the Sahara during the African …

The ITRAX micro-X-ray fluoresence (XRF) core scanner has been applied in a sediment
geochemistry investigation. The core sections selected contain examples of the organic-rich …