A5040102787- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Geological formations and processes
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Water management and technologies
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Classical Antiquity Studies
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2015-2024
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
2014-2024
Université de Toulouse
2008-2024
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
2008-2024
Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés
2020-2024
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2024
Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité et l'Environnement
2024
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
2023
Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2021
Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement
2011-2020
The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage Aegean, Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago has remained one mysteries ancient since event's retrieval began in late 19th century AD/CE. Iconic Egyptian bas-reliefs graphic hieroglyphic cuneiform texts portray proximate cause collapse as invasions "Peoples-of-the-Sea" at Nile Delta, Turkish coast, down into heartlands Syria Palestine where armies clashed, famine-ravaged...
Abstract The alluvial deposits near Gibala-Tell Tweini provide a unique record of environmental history and food availability estimates covering the Late Bronze Age Early Iron Age. refined pollen-derived climatic proxy suggests that drier conditions occurred in Mediterranean belt Syria from late 13th/early 12th centuries BC to 9th century BC. This period corresponds with time frame collapse subsequent Dark abrupt climate change at end caused region-wide crop failures, leading towards...
Climate change and water availability in the Middle East are important understanding human adaptive capacities face of long-term environmental changes. The key role for sedentary nomad populations these arid to semiarid landscapes is understood, but millennium-scale influence hydrologic instability on vegetation dynamics, occupation, historic land use unknown, which has led a stochastic view population responses precipitation anomalies. Within time-frame last two global climate events,...
Oil, which sparked the first Gulf War, is not only liquid resource that may trigger global crises from within a Middle Eastern theater. Water - or lack of it could be cause future conflicts because most precious natural can manipulated and controlled by humans. Here, we report written evidence for diversion Tigris repression purposes in Iraq, 3700 years ago, during period marked precipitation decline. Our study shows perverted role human control over water East, using freshwater supplies as...
The Holocene vegetation history of the northern coastal Arabian Peninsula is long-standing interest, as this Mediterranean/semiarid/arid region known to be particularly sensitive climatic changes. Detailed palynological data from an 800-cm alluvial sequence cored in Jableh plain northwest Syria have been used reconstruct dynamics lowlands and nearby Jabal Nuşayriyah mountains for period 2150 550 B.C. Corresponding with 4.2 3.9 3.5 2.5 cal kyr BP abrupt climate changes (ACCs), two large-scale...
Research Article| December 01, 2012 Nile Delta's sinking past: Quantifiable links with Holocene compaction and climate-driven changes in sediment supply? Nick Marriner; Marriner * 1CNRS, CEREGE UMR 7330, Europôle de l'Arbois, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 04, France *E-mail: marriner@cerege.fr. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Clément Flaux; Flaux 2Université Aix-Marseille, Christophe Morhange; Morhange David Kaniewski 3Université Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3,...
Abstract. The 4.2 ka BP event is defined as a phase of environmental stress characterized by severe and prolonged drought global extent. recorded from the North Atlantic through Europe to Asia has led scientists evoke 300-year mega-drought. For Mediterranean Near East, this abrupt climate episode radically altered precipitation, with an estimated 30 %–50 % drop in rainfall eastern basin. While many studies have highlighted similar trends northern (from Spain Turkey Levant), data Africa...
Climate pacing of “tsunami” deposits in the Mediterranean’s geological record challenges ~90% original interpretations.
Abstract Storm surges, leading to catastrophic coastal flooding, are amongst the most feared natural hazards due high population densities and economic importance of littoral areas. Using Central Mediterranean Sea as a model system, we provide strong evidence for enhanced periods storminess flooding during last 4500 years. We show that long-term correlations can be drawn between solar activity, acting on cycles around 2200-yr 230-yr. also find phases increased storms have impacted upon mid-...
This paper explores long-term trends in human population and vegetation change the Levant from early to late Holocene order assess when how impact has shaped region’s landscapes over millennia. To do so, we employed multiple proxies compared archaeological, pollen palaeoclimate data within a multi-scalar approach landscape dynamics at different geographical scales. We based our analysis on 14 fossil sequences applied hierarchical agglomerative clustering community classification define...
Abstract Future warming in the Mediterranean is expected to significantly exceed global values with unpredictable implications on sea-level rise rates coming decades. Here, we apply an empirical-Bayesian spatio-temporal statistical model a dataset of 401 index points from central and western reconstruct change for past 10,000 years. We demonstrate that mean industrial-era have been faster than any other period since ~4000 years ago. further highlight previously unrecognized variability...
Abstract A common belief is that, unlike today, ancient urban areas developed in a sustainable way within the environmental limits of local natural resources and ecosystem's capacity to respond. This long-held paradigm based on weak knowledge processes underpinning emergence life rise an urban-adapted environment beyond city boundaries. Here, we report 6000-year record changes around port Akko (Acre), Israel, analyse ecological patterns stemming from growth life. We show that early...
Abstract Beirut, Sidon and Tyre were major centres of maritime trade from the Bronze Age onwards. This economic prosperity generated increased pressures on local environment, through urbanization harbour development. Until now, however, impact expanding seaport infrastructure has largely been neglected there is a paucity data concerning environmental stresses caused by these new forms anthropogenic impacts. Sediment archives are key to understanding human impacts in areas because: (i) they...
The 13th century BC witnessed the zenith of Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean civilizations which declined at end Bronze Age, ∼3200 years ago. Weakening this ancient flourishing world shifted political economic centres gravity away from Levant towards Classical Greece Rome, led, in long term, to emergence modern western civilizations. Textual evidence cuneiform tablets Egyptian reliefs New Kingdom relate that seafaring tribes, Sea Peoples, were final catalyst put fall cities states motion....
Abstract The history of the Eastern Mediterranean is punctuated by major crises that have influenced many region's established socioeconomic models. Recent studies underscored role drought and temperature oscillations in driving changes but attempts to quantify their magnitude remain equivocal, hindering long‐term assessments potential interplay between climate society. Here, we fill this knowledge gap using a 6,000‐year pollen‐based reconstruction precipitation from Hala Sultan Tekke,...
Abstract Relations between climate change and landscape evolution during the last two millennia in southeastern coastal Tunisia have been documented using high-resolution reconstruction of flood history fire activity Sebkha Mhabeul core. The age model, based on tephrochronology, indicates that core extends from Roman to modern times encompasses well-defined climatic periods millennia. This record provides a first palaeoecological/palaeoclimatic high resolution North Africa cross-disciplinary...