Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire
Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence
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Growing scientific evidence from modern climate science is loaded with implications for the environmental history of the Roman Empire and its successor societies. The written and archaeological evidence, although richer than commonly realized, is unevenly distributed over time and space. A first synthesis of what the written records and multiple natural archives (multi-proxy data) indicate about climate change and variability across western Eurasia from c. 100 b.c. to 800 a.d. confirms that the Roman Empire rose during a period of stable and favorable climatic conditions, which deteriorated during the Empire's third-century crisis. A second, briefer period of favorable conditions coincided with the Empire's recovery in the fourth century; regional differences in climate conditions parallel the diverging fates of the eastern and western Empires in subsequent centuries. Climate conditions beyond the Empire's boundaries also played an important role by affecting food production in the Nile valley, and by encouraging two major migrations and invasions of pastoral peoples from Central Asia
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The Usage History of the Aqueduct of Nîmes Reconstructed From Carbonate Archives
The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 BC
Dust clouds, climate change and coins
A review of climate reconstructions from terrestrial climate archives covering the first millennium AD in northwestern Europe
Ancient Egyptian mummified shrews (Mammalia
Ciências humanas em perspectiva
Humans and Animals in the Early Middle Ages
Late Holocene Vegetation Dynamics and Sea Level Fluctuations
Early Slavs’ Production and Subsistence Activities Case Study ‒ The Area of the Upper Tisza River Basin (Ca. Second Half of the 6th Century ‒ First Half of the 7th Century Ad)
The New Environmental Fall of Rome
Walsh, David
Settlement, Land Use and Society in the Late Antique Mediterranean, 4th–7th c. An Overview
Invisible Environmental History
Vegetation and Land-Use Change in Northern Europe During Late Antiquity
Modelling Bias and Environmental Preferences in Archaeological Spatial Analysis
Reading John of Ephesus via Procopius of Caesarea
Conviviality and the Life of Soil
Dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–1000 bc
La transición del óptimo climático medieval a la pequeña edad de hielo a través del poblamiento
On the contrasts in the charcoal assemblage of a Late Iron Age and a Romano-British roadside settlement
La identificación del dios Reove y otras correcciones en el altar sacrificial de marecos (Penafiel)
The Waning of the Little Ice Age
The Environmental Fall of the Roman Empire
Isotopic evidence of an environmental shift at the fall of the Kushite kingdom of Meroë, Sudan
Europe in the Iron Age
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia
The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia
Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier
Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia
Central Asia in the Late Roman Mental Map, Second to Sixth Centuries
Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia
Re-constructing the Roman economy
Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy
Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples
The Relations between China and the Steppe
“Charismatic” Goods
Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- and Seventh-Century Türks
The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use Between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Türks
Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire
Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
How the Steppes Became Byzantine
Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia
Seasonal Drought on Roman Rivers
Epilogue
Twenty-first century approaches to ancient problems
Realising consilience
Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years
The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD
Changes in North Atlantic Oscillation drove Population Migrations and the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Late Pleistocene hydrological settings at world heritage Tsodilo Hills (NW Kalahari, Botswana), a site of ancient human occupation
Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome. Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire
Le monde romain et l’histoire environnementale. Perspectives et enjeux face à une crise écologique globale
Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghrib
How long and how strong must a climatic anomaly be in order to evoke a social transformation? Historical and contemporaneous case studies
A Viewpoint on Eastern Mediterranean Villages in Late Antiquity
Mutual Influences of the Ottoman Empire and the Silk Roads
Reconstructing the Nile
Fighting against nature
Landscape approaches to the evolution of the Byzantine/Medieval village-community in Greece
UBC Excavations of the Roman Villa at Gerace, Sicily
Climate and the end of Antiquity
Archeologia del paesaggio e relazioni uomo-ambiente
‘Still waters run deep’
Le climat et l’Antiquité Tardive
Late Glacial to Late Holocene Environmental Changes Recorded in the Floodplain Geoarchive of the Ostriv Dubovets Archaeological Site (NW Ukraine)
Filozofia w działaniu czyli przemiany gospodarczo-społeczne w Barbaricum w późnym okresie wpływów rzymskich i u progu wędrówek ludów
Działalność Hunów w Europie jako przykład zderzenia cywilizacji
Roman Imperialism and the Transformation of Rural Society in a Frontier Province
Terracotta Pipelines at Maloutena
The environmental elements of foundations in Roman cities
Coincidence and Complexity
Palaeoclimate Change in the Southern Black Sea Region and Its Impact on the Fate of Rome—From Megadrought to Collapse of Rome’s ›Polis Command Economy‹
Managing the marshes
IsoArcH.eu
Paleo-environmental implications of the micro-botanical remains recovered from a military garrison of Han Dynasty in Xinjiang
Evolutionary model and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the La Codera archaeological complex (Ebro Basin, NE Spain)
Understanding the development of viticulture in Roman Gaul during and after the Roman climate optimum
The Gauls experienced the Roman Warm Period
Gold-bearing Plio-Quaternary deposits
Mapping Changes in Settlement Number and Demography in the South of Israel from the Hellenistic to the Early Islamic Period
The Winery in Context
Plague and Climate in the Collapse of an Ancient World-System
Assèchement et dégradation des sols durant le Subatlantique
Management of fluvio-coastal dynamics in the Tiber delta during the Roman period
Modelling the impact of climatic changes on the usability of Jewish ritual purification baths in Roman Palestine
Rivers and flood risk management in rural areas
Climate and Society in Chinese History
Climate and society in European history
Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners
The current state of Byzantine archeology
Mediterranean archeology and environmental histories in the spotlight of the Anthropocene
Approaches to the environmental history of Late Antiquity, part II
People's history of climate change
Some Perspectives on Societal Impacts of Past Climatic Changes
A Stable Isotope Approach to Roman Diet and Its Legacy in Late Antiquity in Hispania and the Western Empire
The Byzantine Insular Countryside in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-ca.900)
Climate deterioration in the Eastern Mediterranean as revealed by ion microprobe analysis of a speleothem that grew from 2.2 to 0.9 ka in Soreq Cave, Israel
An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids
Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea
Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene
Major features and forcing of high‐latitude northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation using a 110,000‐year‐long glaciochemical series
Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
Comparison of oxygen isotope records from the Gisp2 and GRIP Greenland ice cores
Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility
Holocene Climate Variability and Cultural Evolution in the Near East from the Dead Sea Sedimentary Record
Palaeo-climate reconstruction from stable isotope variations in speleothems
Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey
Total solar irradiance during the Holocene
A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record
Complexity of Holocene Climate as Reconstructed from a Greenland Ice Core
Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years
Solar Influences on Climate
The later Roman Empire, 284-602
The World of the Huns
Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750-950
Climate, History And The Modern World
The Cambridge History of Iran
Climat, Guerre des Gaules et dendrochronologie du chêne (Quercus sp.) du ier siècle av. J.-C
Diatom and geochemical evidence of mid- to late Holocene climatic changes at Lake Holzmaar, West-Eifel (Germany)
The Cairo Nilometer. Studies in Ibn Taghri Birdi's Chronicles of Egypt
Roman and late-antique shipwrecks with stone cargoes
Food as embodied material culture
Re-evaluating the Roman West in the 3rd c. A.D
A 9111 year long conifer tree-ring chronology for the European Alps
Changes in solar activity and Holocene climatic shifts derived from 14C wiggle-match dated peat deposits
Glacier and lake-level variations in west-central Europe over the last 3500 years
Evidence of Lateglacial and Holocene climatic change and human impact in eastern Anatolia
Multicentury glacier fluctuations in the Swiss Alps during the Holocene
The Pulse of Asia. A Journey in Central Asia Illustrating the Geographic Basis of History
The Floods of 589 and Climate Change at the Beginning of the Middle Ages
Intcal04 Terrestrial Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0–26 Cal Kyr BP
A Climatic Change in the Early Byzantine Period? Some Archaeological Evidence
Reconstruction of the 14 C Production Rate from Measured Relative Abundance
AMS Radiocarbon and Varve Chronology from the Annually Laminated Sediment Record of Lake Meerfelder Maar, Germany
A Radiocarbon Perspective on Greenland Ice-Core Chronologies
C Variations Caused by Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle
Der Fall Roms
INTCAL98 Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 24,000-0 cal BP
Late Antiquity
Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum
Memoire sur l'Histoire du Nil
The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Roman vineyards in Britain
| Unique citing works | 230 |
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| Citations per year | 17,69 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 206 |