Holocene climate reconstructions from western Anatolia based on speleothem data

Date

2021-11-01

Author

Ünal, İmer, Ezgi

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

29
views

5
downloads

Cite This

The role of climate in evolutionary and cultural transformations in Anatolia ; As a crossroad for early human migration, Anatolia (Turkey) was an important region for the spread of agriculture into Europe. To reconstruct past environmental conditions, researchers use speleothems archives. High-resolution and precisely dated regional speleothem-based palaeoclimate records are most revealing of the past variability of rainfall regimes. Current studies suggest decreases in rainfall-driven water availability during the late Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean region was one of the main reasons for the decline and collapse of former civilisations. Building on these findings, the MSCA-IF SPELEOTOLIA project will generate an extensive dataset using Holocene-aged stalagmites from several cave sites located in western and southwestern Anatolia.

Subject Keywords

speleology, geochemistry, ancient history

URI

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/842403
http://speleotolia.geoe.metu.edu.tr/
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113494

Collections

Department of Geological Engineering, Project and Design