[BOOK][B] The great leveler: Violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century

W Scheidel - 2017 - degruyter.com
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic
inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global�…

[BOOK][B] The fate of Rome: Climate, disease, and the end of an empire

K Harper - 2018 - degruyter.com
Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the�…

[PDF][PDF] Point of departure and key concepts

R Ara Begum, R Lempert, A Elham, TA Benjaminsen… - 2022 - duo.uio.no
Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a�…

[HTML][HTML] Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 BC

SW Manning, C Kocik, B Lorentzen, JP Sparks�- Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The potential of climate change to substantially alter human history is a pressing concern,
but the specific effects of different types of climate change remain unknown. This question�…

Xist recruits the X chromosome to the nuclear lamina to enable chromosome-wide silencing

CK Chen, M Blanco, C Jackson, E Aznauryan…�- Science, 2016 - science.org
The Xist long noncoding RNA orchestrates X chromosome inactivation, a process that
entails chromosome-wide silencing and remodeling of the three-dimensional (3D) structure�…

[HTML][HTML] Human-environmental interactions in Mediterranean climate regions from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

T Rick, M�C Ontiveros, A Jerardino, A Mariotti…�- Anthropocene, 2020 - Elsevier
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�…

[BOOK][B] The archaeology of the bronze age levant

R Greenberg - 2019 - books.google.com
The Levant-modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine-is one of the
most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated�…

Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate reconstruction over the last 3600 years based on sedimentary n-alkanes, their carbon and hydrogen isotope composition and�…

C Katrantsiotis, ME Kylander, R Smittenberg…�- Quaternary Science�…, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding past hydroclimate variability and related drivers is essential to improve
climate forecasting capabilities especially in areas with high climatic sensitivity, such as the�…

Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds and Mediterranean basin ecosystems

J Guiot, W Cramer�- Science, 2016 - science.org
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement of
December 2015 aims to maintain the global average warming well below 2� C above the�…

History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change

J Haldon, L Mordechai, TP Newfield…�- Proceedings of the�…, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
History and archaeology have a well-established engagement with issues of premodern
societal development and the interaction between physical and cultural environments;�…