Few proxies can provide quantitative reconstructions of past continental climatic and hydrological changes. Here, we report the first alkenone-based reconstruction of late Holocene temperature and salinity changes in Lake ...

This paper focuses on the 5th-millennium BC shift from short-term habitations to permanent tell settlements in southern Romania: from the Cris, Dudesti and Boian to the Gumelnitu Cultures. Archaeological and geomorphologic ...

Alluvial systems are complex, self-organizing and hierarchical in structure. They represent stored and transitory sediment bodies transported by rivers that have eroded their catchments and created multiscalar landforms ...

With the successful launch of Japan's Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array L-band SAR (PALSAR) and the recent provision of a Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JERS-1) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mosaic ...

In this reconnaissance study, skeletal materials from people, dating from ~1500 B.P., who lived by or worked at the ancient copper mines and furnaces of the Wadi Faynan in southern Jordan, were analysed using atomic ...