Abstract
A wide spectrum of data obtained as a result of palynological, hydrological, geological, paleontological and archaeological investigations is enabling us to reconstruct quite comprehensively and with high definition the climate changes which have occurred in the Mediterranean region during the last 10,000 years. One may start with indicators not influenced by human activity, like isotope ratios, or ancient Mediterranean and Dead Sea levels; proceed with such environmental proxy-data, as pollen time series; and then add to this archaeological and human historical data. One may thus obviate the ‘danger of arguing in circle’ which is the danger of ‘inventing climatic change to explain events in human history, which are then held to prove the occurrence of a change of climate’ (Lamb, 1982).
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- Eastern Mediterranean Region
- Roman Period
- Isotope Curve
- Judean Desert
- Chalcolithic Period
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Issar, A.S. (1998). Climate Change and History during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. In: Issar, A.S., Brown, N. (eds) Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3659-6_6
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