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Prof. Anna Maria Mercuri
Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, DIpartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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Research article
Published: 16 August 2021 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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The sediment record from Lake Ohrid (Southwestern Balkans) represents the longest continuous lake archive in Europe, extending back to 1.36 Ma. We reconstruct the vegetation history based on pollen analysis of the DEEP core to reveal changes in vegetation cover and forest diversity during glacial–interglacial (G–IG) cycles and early basin development. The earliest lake phase saw a significantly different composition rich in relict tree taxa and few herbs. Subsequent establishment of a permanent steppic herb association around 1.2 Ma implies a threshold response to changes in moisture availability and temperature and gradual adjustment of the basin morphology. A change in the character of G–IG cycles during the Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition is reflected in the record by reorganization of the vegetation from obliquity- to eccentricity-paced cycles. Based on a quantitative analysis of tree taxa richness, the first large-scale decline in tree diversity occurred around 0.94 Ma. Subsequent variations in tree richness were largely driven by the amplitude and duration of G–IG cycles. Significant tree richness declines occurred in periods with abundant dry herb associations, pointing to aridity affecting tree population survival. Assessment of long-term legacy effects between global climate and regional vegetation change reveals a significant influence of cool interglacial conditions on subsequent glacial vegetation composition and diversity. This effect is contrary to observations at high latitudes, where glacial intensity is known to control subsequent interglacial vegetation, and the evidence demonstrates that the Lake Ohrid catchment functioned as a refugium for both thermophilous and temperate tree species.

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Timme Donders; Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos; Andreas Koutsodendris; Adele Bertini; Anna Maria Mercuri; Alessia Masi; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Sébastien Joannin; Katerina Kouli; Ilias Kousis; Odile Peyron; Paola Torri; Assunta Florenzano; Alexander Francke; Bernd Wagner; Laura Sadori. 1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial–interglacial cycle strength. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021, 118, 1 .

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Timme Donders, Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos, Andreas Koutsodendris, Adele Bertini, Anna Maria Mercuri, Alessia Masi, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Sébastien Joannin, Katerina Kouli, Ilias Kousis, Odile Peyron, Paola Torri, Assunta Florenzano, Alexander Francke, Bernd Wagner, Laura Sadori. 1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial–interglacial cycle strength. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021; 118 (34):1.

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Timme Donders; Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos; Andreas Koutsodendris; Adele Bertini; Anna Maria Mercuri; Alessia Masi; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Sébastien Joannin; Katerina Kouli; Ilias Kousis; Odile Peyron; Paola Torri; Assunta Florenzano; Alexander Francke; Bernd Wagner; Laura Sadori. 2021. "1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial–interglacial cycle strength." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 34: 1.

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Published: 20 February 2021 in Sustainability
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The recovery of inaperturate pollen from functionally female flowers in archaeological layers opens the question of a possible pollen-based discrimination between wild and domesticated Vitis vinifera in prehistoric times. Pollen analysis applied to archaeology has not routinely considered the existence of pollen dimorphism in Vitis, a well-known trait in the field of agrarian studies. Therefore, the inaperturate shape of grapevine pollen is ignored by studies on the archaeobotanical history of viticulture. In this paper we investigate pollen morphology of the domesticated and wild subspecies of V. vinifera, and report the first evidence of inaperturate Vitis pollen from an archaeological site. We studied exemplar cases of plants with hermaphroditic flowers, belonging to the subspecies vinifera with fully developed male and female organs, cases of dioecious plants with male or female flowers, belonging to the wild subspecies sylvestris and cases of V. vinifera subsp. vinifera with morphologically hermaphroditic but functionally female flowers. The pollen produced by hermaphroditic and male flowers is usually trizonocolporate; the pollen produced by female flowers is inaperturate. This paper reports on the inaperturate pollen of Vitis found in an archeological site of the Po Plain, Northern Italy. The site dated to the Bronze Age, which is known to have been a critical age for the use of this plant with a transition from wild to domesticated Vitis in central Mediterranean. Can the inaperturate Vitis pollen be a marker of wild Vitis vinifera in prehistoric times? Palynology suggests a possible new investigation strategy on the ancient history of the wild and cultivated grapevine. The pollen dimorphism also implies a different production and dispersal of pollen of the wild and the domesticated subspecies. Grapevine plants are palynologically different from the other Mediterranean “cultural trees”. In fact, Olea, Juglans and Castanea, which are included in the OJC index, have the same pollen morphology and the same pollen dispersal, in wild and domesticated plants. In contrast, the signal of Vitis pollen in past records may be different depending on the hermaphroditic or dioecious subspecies.

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Anna Mercuri; Paola Torri; Assunta Florenzano; Eleonora Clò; Marta Mariotti Lippi; Elisabetta Sgarbi; Cristina Bignami. Sharing the Agrarian Knowledge with Archaeology: First Evidence of the Dimorphism of Vitis Pollen from the Middle Bronze Age of N Italy (Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio). Sustainability 2021, 13, 2287 .

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Anna Mercuri, Paola Torri, Assunta Florenzano, Eleonora Clò, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Cristina Bignami. Sharing the Agrarian Knowledge with Archaeology: First Evidence of the Dimorphism of Vitis Pollen from the Middle Bronze Age of N Italy (Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio). Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2287.

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Anna Mercuri; Paola Torri; Assunta Florenzano; Eleonora Clò; Marta Mariotti Lippi; Elisabetta Sgarbi; Cristina Bignami. 2021. "Sharing the Agrarian Knowledge with Archaeology: First Evidence of the Dimorphism of Vitis Pollen from the Middle Bronze Age of N Italy (Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio)." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2287.

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Published: 14 October 2020 in Journal of Archaeological Science
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The early consumption of wine or other grape derivatives (such as vinegar or must) is suggested from organic residues analysis conducted on Bronze Age pottery recovered from two sites in north-eastern Italy, Pilastri di Bondeno (Ferrara) and Canale Anfora (Aquileia, Udine). Pilastri is part of the Terramare culture of the Po plain, from which the archaeobotanical context has suggested that Vitis vinifera L. was known and used during the Middle Bronze Age. At Canale Anfora Vitis, macro-remains were found in earlier levels of the local stratigraphy. Organic residue analysis conducted by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry allowed the identification of tartaric acid in twenty samples out of thirty-one recovered from different ceramic vessels (e.g., drinking cups, coarse ware pots, presumed storage vessels) found at the two archaeological sites and dated to the 15th-14th centuries BC. Based on integrated studies, we suggest that grape juice derivatives (including wine or vinegar) were likely consumed at the sites. This is the earliest direct evidence of grape derivatives consumption in this area. Combined with the botanical evidence, these findings contribute to our understanding of the emergence of wine consumption in the western Mediterranean.

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Alessandra Pecci; Elisabetta Borgna; Simona Mileto; Elisa Dalla Longa; Giovanna Bosi; Assunta Florenzano; Anna Maria Mercuri; Susi Corazza; Marco Marchesini; Massimo Vidale. Wine consumption in Bronze Age Italy: combining organic residue analysis, botanical data and ceramic variability. Journal of Archaeological Science 2020, 123, 105256 .

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Alessandra Pecci, Elisabetta Borgna, Simona Mileto, Elisa Dalla Longa, Giovanna Bosi, Assunta Florenzano, Anna Maria Mercuri, Susi Corazza, Marco Marchesini, Massimo Vidale. Wine consumption in Bronze Age Italy: combining organic residue analysis, botanical data and ceramic variability. Journal of Archaeological Science. 2020; 123 ():105256.

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Alessandra Pecci; Elisabetta Borgna; Simona Mileto; Elisa Dalla Longa; Giovanna Bosi; Assunta Florenzano; Anna Maria Mercuri; Susi Corazza; Marco Marchesini; Massimo Vidale. 2020. "Wine consumption in Bronze Age Italy: combining organic residue analysis, botanical data and ceramic variability." Journal of Archaeological Science 123, no. : 105256.

Data description paper
Published: 09 October 2020 in Earth System Science Data
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The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land cover, and land use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data on fossil pollen found in Late Quaternary sedimentary archives throughout the Eurasian region. The EPD is in turn part of the rapidly growing Neotoma database, which is now the primary home for global palaeoecological data. This paper describes version 2 of the EMPD in which the number of samples held in the database has been increased by 60 % from 4826 to 8134. Much of the improvement in data coverage has come from northern Asia, and the database has consequently been renamed the Eurasian Modern Pollen Database to reflect this geographical enlargement. The EMPD can be viewed online using a dedicated map-based viewer at https://empd2.github.io and downloaded in a variety of file formats at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909130 (Chevalier et al., 2019).

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Basil A. S. Davis; Manuel Chevalier; Philipp Sommer; Vachel A. Carter; Walter Finsinger; Achille Mauri; Leanne N. Phelps; Marco Zanon; Roman Abegglen; Christine M. Åkesson; Francisca Alba-Sánchez; R. Scott Anderson; Tatiana G. Antipina; Juliana R. Atanassova; Ruth Beer; Nina I. Belyanina; Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk; Olga K. Borisova; Elissaveta Bozilova; Galina Bukreeva; M. Jane Bunting; Eleonora Clò; Daniele Colombaroli; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Stéphanie Desprat; Federico Di Rita; Morteza Djamali; Kevin J. Edwards; Patricia L. Fall; Angelica Feurdean; William Fletcher; Assunta Florenzano; Giulia Furlanetto; Emna Gaceur; Arsenii T. Galimov; Mariusz Gałka; Iria García-Moreiras; Thomas Giesecke; Roxana Grindean; Maria A. Guido; Irina G. Gvozdeva; Ulrike Herzschuh; Kari L. Hjelle; Sergey Ivanov; Susanne Jahns; Vlasta Jankovska; Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno; Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek; Ikuko Kitaba; Piotr Kołaczek; Elena G. Lapteva; Małgorzata Latałowa; Vincent Lebreton; Suzanne Leroy; Michelle Leydet; Darya A. Lopatina; José Antonio López-Sáez; André F. Lotter; Donatella Magri; Elena Marinova; Isabelle Matthias; Anastasia Mavridou; Anna Maria Mercuri; Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández; Yuri A. Mikishin; Krystyna Milecka; Carlo Montanari; César Morales-Molino; Almut Mrotzek; Castor Muñoz Sobrino; Olga D. Naidina; Takeshi Nakagawa; Anne Birgitte Nielsen; Elena Y. Novenko; Sampson Panajiotidis; Nata K. Panova; Maria Papadopoulou; Heather S. Pardoe; Anna Pędziszewska; Tatiana I. Petrenko; María J. Ramos-Román; Cesare Ravazzi; Manfred Rösch; Natalia Ryabogina; Silvia Sabariego Ruiz; J. Sakari Salonen; Tatyana V. Sapelko; James E. Schofield; Heikki Seppä; Lyudmila Shumilovskikh; Normunds Stivrins; Philipp Stojakowits; Helena Svobodova Svitavska; Joanna Święta-Musznicka; Ioan Tantau; Willy Tinner; Kazimierz Tobolski; Spassimir Tonkov; Margarita Tsakiridou; Verushka Valsecchi; Oksana G. Zanina; Marcelina Zimny. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. Earth System Science Data 2020, 12, 2423 -2445.

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Basil A. S. Davis, Manuel Chevalier, Philipp Sommer, Vachel A. Carter, Walter Finsinger, Achille Mauri, Leanne N. Phelps, Marco Zanon, Roman Abegglen, Christine M. Åkesson, Francisca Alba-Sánchez, R. Scott Anderson, Tatiana G. Antipina, Juliana R. Atanassova, Ruth Beer, Nina I. Belyanina, Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk, Olga K. Borisova, Elissaveta Bozilova, Galina Bukreeva, M. Jane Bunting, Eleonora Clò, Daniele Colombaroli, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Stéphanie Desprat, Federico Di Rita, Morteza Djamali, Kevin J. Edwards, Patricia L. Fall, Angelica Feurdean, William Fletcher, Assunta Florenzano, Giulia Furlanetto, Emna Gaceur, Arsenii T. Galimov, Mariusz Gałka, Iria García-Moreiras, Thomas Giesecke, Roxana Grindean, Maria A. Guido, Irina G. Gvozdeva, Ulrike Herzschuh, Kari L. Hjelle, Sergey Ivanov, Susanne Jahns, Vlasta Jankovska, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek, Ikuko Kitaba, Piotr Kołaczek, Elena G. Lapteva, Małgorzata Latałowa, Vincent Lebreton, Suzanne Leroy, Michelle Leydet, Darya A. Lopatina, José Antonio López-Sáez, André F. Lotter, Donatella Magri, Elena Marinova, Isabelle Matthias, Anastasia Mavridou, Anna Maria Mercuri, Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández, Yuri A. Mikishin, Krystyna Milecka, Carlo Montanari, César Morales-Molino, Almut Mrotzek, Castor Muñoz Sobrino, Olga D. Naidina, Takeshi Nakagawa, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Elena Y. Novenko, Sampson Panajiotidis, Nata K. Panova, Maria Papadopoulou, Heather S. Pardoe, Anna Pędziszewska, Tatiana I. Petrenko, María J. Ramos-Román, Cesare Ravazzi, Manfred Rösch, Natalia Ryabogina, Silvia Sabariego Ruiz, J. Sakari Salonen, Tatyana V. Sapelko, James E. Schofield, Heikki Seppä, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Normunds Stivrins, Philipp Stojakowits, Helena Svobodova Svitavska, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Ioan Tantau, Willy Tinner, Kazimierz Tobolski, Spassimir Tonkov, Margarita Tsakiridou, Verushka Valsecchi, Oksana G. Zanina, Marcelina Zimny. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. Earth System Science Data. 2020; 12 (4):2423-2445.

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Basil A. S. Davis; Manuel Chevalier; Philipp Sommer; Vachel A. Carter; Walter Finsinger; Achille Mauri; Leanne N. Phelps; Marco Zanon; Roman Abegglen; Christine M. Åkesson; Francisca Alba-Sánchez; R. Scott Anderson; Tatiana G. Antipina; Juliana R. Atanassova; Ruth Beer; Nina I. Belyanina; Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk; Olga K. Borisova; Elissaveta Bozilova; Galina Bukreeva; M. Jane Bunting; Eleonora Clò; Daniele Colombaroli; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Stéphanie Desprat; Federico Di Rita; Morteza Djamali; Kevin J. Edwards; Patricia L. Fall; Angelica Feurdean; William Fletcher; Assunta Florenzano; Giulia Furlanetto; Emna Gaceur; Arsenii T. Galimov; Mariusz Gałka; Iria García-Moreiras; Thomas Giesecke; Roxana Grindean; Maria A. Guido; Irina G. Gvozdeva; Ulrike Herzschuh; Kari L. Hjelle; Sergey Ivanov; Susanne Jahns; Vlasta Jankovska; Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno; Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek; Ikuko Kitaba; Piotr Kołaczek; Elena G. Lapteva; Małgorzata Latałowa; Vincent Lebreton; Suzanne Leroy; Michelle Leydet; Darya A. Lopatina; José Antonio López-Sáez; André F. Lotter; Donatella Magri; Elena Marinova; Isabelle Matthias; Anastasia Mavridou; Anna Maria Mercuri; Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández; Yuri A. Mikishin; Krystyna Milecka; Carlo Montanari; César Morales-Molino; Almut Mrotzek; Castor Muñoz Sobrino; Olga D. Naidina; Takeshi Nakagawa; Anne Birgitte Nielsen; Elena Y. Novenko; Sampson Panajiotidis; Nata K. Panova; Maria Papadopoulou; Heather S. Pardoe; Anna Pędziszewska; Tatiana I. Petrenko; María J. Ramos-Román; Cesare Ravazzi; Manfred Rösch; Natalia Ryabogina; Silvia Sabariego Ruiz; J. Sakari Salonen; Tatyana V. Sapelko; James E. Schofield; Heikki Seppä; Lyudmila Shumilovskikh; Normunds Stivrins; Philipp Stojakowits; Helena Svobodova Svitavska; Joanna Święta-Musznicka; Ioan Tantau; Willy Tinner; Kazimierz Tobolski; Spassimir Tonkov; Margarita Tsakiridou; Verushka Valsecchi; Oksana G. Zanina; Marcelina Zimny. 2020. "The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2." Earth System Science Data 12, no. 4: 2423-2445.

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Published: 18 June 2020 in Environmental Archaeology
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Rocco Rotunno; Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano; Andrea Zerboni; Savino Di Lernia. The Visibility of Mobility: Coprolites, Dung and Neolithic Herders in Central Saharan Rock Shelters. Environmental Archaeology 2020, 1 -16.

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Rocco Rotunno, Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano, Andrea Zerboni, Savino Di Lernia. The Visibility of Mobility: Coprolites, Dung and Neolithic Herders in Central Saharan Rock Shelters. Environmental Archaeology. 2020; ():1-16.

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Rocco Rotunno; Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano; Andrea Zerboni; Savino Di Lernia. 2020. "The Visibility of Mobility: Coprolites, Dung and Neolithic Herders in Central Saharan Rock Shelters." Environmental Archaeology , no. : 1-16.

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Published: 23 March 2020
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Ancient land management is inherited and at the base of the current landscapes and must be known to facilitate a sustainable land development for the future. Understanding past land-use systems is helpful for evaluating the current and future state of both biological and physical environments, and for disentangling the role of people in shaping current landscapes. Many different perspectives are involved in reconstructing the cultural impact on the environment. Palynology has great potentiality for environmental and palaeoethnobotanical purposes, with the study of high-resolution sequences formed under natural and anthropic (cultural) forces. Pollen data are fruitfully used to reconstruct land transformations in a diachronic palaeoecological perspective. For example, palynological records from central Mediterranean archaeological sites showed evidence of land uses and evolution of agrarian systems from Neolithic to Bronze Age, allowing a comparative view of the long-term changes in the land footprint of ancient Mediterranean societies. In this study we report on the level of detail on land management provided by palynological research from archaeological sites of Greek Basilicata (south Italy) and Roman Tuscany (central Italy). The local land use types and different management strategies inferred from palynology provide an important contribution to the knowledge of land development and implications for a sustainable soil management in these regions.

 

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano. Palynology as a tool for the knowledge on the millennial human impact and land management in the central Mediterranean. 2020, 1 .

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Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano. Palynology as a tool for the knowledge on the millennial human impact and land management in the central Mediterranean. . 2020; ():1.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano. 2020. "Palynology as a tool for the knowledge on the millennial human impact and land management in the central Mediterranean." , no. : 1.

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Published: 24 February 2020
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The Eurasian (née European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land-cover and land-use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data on fossil pollen found in Late Quaternary sedimentary archives throughout the Eurasian region. The EPD is in turn part of the rapidly growing Neotoma database, which is now the primary home for global palaeoecological data. This paper describes version 2 of the EMPD in which the number of samples held in the database has been increased by 60 % from 4826 to 8134. Much of the improvement in data coverage has come from Northern Asia, and the database has consequently been renamed the Eurasian Modern Pollen Database to reflect this geographical enlargement. The EMPD can be viewed online using a dedicated mapbased viewer at https://empd2.github.io, and downloaded in a variety of file formats at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909130 (Chevalier et al., 2019).

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Basil A. S. Davis; Manuel Chevalier; Philipp Sommer; Vachel A. Carter; Walter Finsinger; Achille Mauri; Leanne N. Phelps; Marco Zanon; Roman Abegglen; Christine M. Åkesson; Francisca Alba-Sánchez; R. Scott Anderson; Tatiana G. Antipina; Juliana R. Atanassova; Ruth Beer; Nina I. Belyanina; Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk; Olga K. Borisova; Elissaveta Bozilova; Galina Bukreeva; M. Jane Bunting; Eleonora Clò; Daniele Colombaroli; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Stéphanie Desprat; Federico Di Rita; Morteza Djamali; Kevin J. Edwards; Patricia L. Fall; Angelica Feurdean; William Fletcher; Assunta Florenzano; Giulia Furlanetto; Emna Gaceur; Arsenii T. Galimov; Mariusz Gałka; Iria García-Moreiras; Thomas Giesecke; Roxana Grindean; Maria A. Guido; Irina G. Gvozdeva; Ulrike Herzschuh; Kari L. Hjelle; Sergey Ivanov; Susanne Jahns; Vlasta Jankovska; Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno; Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek; Ikuko Kitaba; Piotr Kołaczek; Elena G. Lapteva; Małgorzata Latałowa; Vincent Lebreton; Suzanne Leroy; Michelle Leydet; Darya A. Lopatina; José Antonio López-Sáez; André F. Lotter; Donatella Magri; Elena Marinova; Isabelle Matthias; Anastasia Mavridou; Anna Maria Mercuri; Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández; Yuri A. Mikishin; Krystyna Milecka; Carlo Montanari; César Morales-Molino; Almut Mrotzek; Castor Muñoz Sobrino; Olga D. Naidina; Takeshi Nakagawa; Anne Birgitte Nielsen; Elena Y. Novenko; Sampson Panajiotidis; Nata K. Panova; Maria Papadopoulou; Heather S. Pardoe; Anna Pędziszewska; Tatiana I. Petrenko; María J. Ramos-Román; Cesare Ravazzi; Manfred Rösch; Natalia Ryabogina; Silvia Sabariego Ruiz; J. Sakari Salonen; Tatyana V. Sapelko; James E. Schofield; Heikki Seppä; Lyudmila Shumilovskikh; Normunds Stivrins; Philipp Stojakowits; Helena Svobodova Svitavska; Joanna Święta-Musznicka; Ioan Tantau; Willy Tinner; Kazimierz Tobolski; Spassimir Tonkov; Margarita Tsakiridou; Verushka Valsecchi; Oksana G. Zanina; Marcelina Zimny. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), Version 2. 2020, 2020, 1 -41.

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Basil A. S. Davis, Manuel Chevalier, Philipp Sommer, Vachel A. Carter, Walter Finsinger, Achille Mauri, Leanne N. Phelps, Marco Zanon, Roman Abegglen, Christine M. Åkesson, Francisca Alba-Sánchez, R. Scott Anderson, Tatiana G. Antipina, Juliana R. Atanassova, Ruth Beer, Nina I. Belyanina, Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk, Olga K. Borisova, Elissaveta Bozilova, Galina Bukreeva, M. Jane Bunting, Eleonora Clò, Daniele Colombaroli, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Stéphanie Desprat, Federico Di Rita, Morteza Djamali, Kevin J. Edwards, Patricia L. Fall, Angelica Feurdean, William Fletcher, Assunta Florenzano, Giulia Furlanetto, Emna Gaceur, Arsenii T. Galimov, Mariusz Gałka, Iria García-Moreiras, Thomas Giesecke, Roxana Grindean, Maria A. Guido, Irina G. Gvozdeva, Ulrike Herzschuh, Kari L. Hjelle, Sergey Ivanov, Susanne Jahns, Vlasta Jankovska, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek, Ikuko Kitaba, Piotr Kołaczek, Elena G. Lapteva, Małgorzata Latałowa, Vincent Lebreton, Suzanne Leroy, Michelle Leydet, Darya A. Lopatina, José Antonio López-Sáez, André F. Lotter, Donatella Magri, Elena Marinova, Isabelle Matthias, Anastasia Mavridou, Anna Maria Mercuri, Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández, Yuri A. Mikishin, Krystyna Milecka, Carlo Montanari, César Morales-Molino, Almut Mrotzek, Castor Muñoz Sobrino, Olga D. Naidina, Takeshi Nakagawa, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Elena Y. Novenko, Sampson Panajiotidis, Nata K. Panova, Maria Papadopoulou, Heather S. Pardoe, Anna Pędziszewska, Tatiana I. Petrenko, María J. Ramos-Román, Cesare Ravazzi, Manfred Rösch, Natalia Ryabogina, Silvia Sabariego Ruiz, J. Sakari Salonen, Tatyana V. Sapelko, James E. Schofield, Heikki Seppä, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Normunds Stivrins, Philipp Stojakowits, Helena Svobodova Svitavska, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Ioan Tantau, Willy Tinner, Kazimierz Tobolski, Spassimir Tonkov, Margarita Tsakiridou, Verushka Valsecchi, Oksana G. Zanina, Marcelina Zimny. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), Version 2. . 2020; 2020 ():1-41.

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Basil A. S. Davis; Manuel Chevalier; Philipp Sommer; Vachel A. Carter; Walter Finsinger; Achille Mauri; Leanne N. Phelps; Marco Zanon; Roman Abegglen; Christine M. Åkesson; Francisca Alba-Sánchez; R. Scott Anderson; Tatiana G. Antipina; Juliana R. Atanassova; Ruth Beer; Nina I. Belyanina; Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk; Olga K. Borisova; Elissaveta Bozilova; Galina Bukreeva; M. Jane Bunting; Eleonora Clò; Daniele Colombaroli; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Stéphanie Desprat; Federico Di Rita; Morteza Djamali; Kevin J. Edwards; Patricia L. Fall; Angelica Feurdean; William Fletcher; Assunta Florenzano; Giulia Furlanetto; Emna Gaceur; Arsenii T. Galimov; Mariusz Gałka; Iria García-Moreiras; Thomas Giesecke; Roxana Grindean; Maria A. Guido; Irina G. Gvozdeva; Ulrike Herzschuh; Kari L. Hjelle; Sergey Ivanov; Susanne Jahns; Vlasta Jankovska; Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno; Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek; Ikuko Kitaba; Piotr Kołaczek; Elena G. Lapteva; Małgorzata Latałowa; Vincent Lebreton; Suzanne Leroy; Michelle Leydet; Darya A. Lopatina; José Antonio López-Sáez; André F. Lotter; Donatella Magri; Elena Marinova; Isabelle Matthias; Anastasia Mavridou; Anna Maria Mercuri; Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández; Yuri A. Mikishin; Krystyna Milecka; Carlo Montanari; César Morales-Molino; Almut Mrotzek; Castor Muñoz Sobrino; Olga D. Naidina; Takeshi Nakagawa; Anne Birgitte Nielsen; Elena Y. Novenko; Sampson Panajiotidis; Nata K. Panova; Maria Papadopoulou; Heather S. Pardoe; Anna Pędziszewska; Tatiana I. Petrenko; María J. Ramos-Román; Cesare Ravazzi; Manfred Rösch; Natalia Ryabogina; Silvia Sabariego Ruiz; J. Sakari Salonen; Tatyana V. Sapelko; James E. Schofield; Heikki Seppä; Lyudmila Shumilovskikh; Normunds Stivrins; Philipp Stojakowits; Helena Svobodova Svitavska; Joanna Święta-Musznicka; Ioan Tantau; Willy Tinner; Kazimierz Tobolski; Spassimir Tonkov; Margarita Tsakiridou; Verushka Valsecchi; Oksana G. Zanina; Marcelina Zimny. 2020. "The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), Version 2." 2020, no. : 1-41.

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Published: 31 January 2020 in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
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This paper presents the results obtained from palynological research carried out at the archaeological site of San Vincenzo-Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Sicily) during seven fieldwork seasons (2009–2015). The site has had discontinuous occupation since the Neolithic; the main remains are dated to the Bronze Age, late Roman and late Medieval phases. Pollen analyses were carried out on 60 samples taken from different archaeological contexts, and about 1/3 had enough pollen to calculate pollen spectra. The aim of the research was to gain new data on the economy and productive activity of the island, and to reconstruct the landscape focusing primarily on the Bronze Age, and then on the other occupational phases. An interdisciplinary approach integrating different disciplines has facilitated new interpretations about landscape and human activities. Pollen suggests that oak woodland and Mediterranean evergreen vegetation have been part of the natural plant cover of the area since the first occupation. Early evidence of agrarian practices, including cereal cultivation, dates back to the Bronze Age while the current vegetation seems to have originated during the Medieval period.

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A.M. Mercuri; V. Cannavò; E. Clò; Andrea DI Renzoni; A. Florenzano; E. Rattighieri; D. Yoon; S.T. Levi. Palynology of San Vincenzo-Stromboli: Interdisciplinary perspective for the diachronic palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of an island of Sicily. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 2020, 30, 102235 .

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A.M. Mercuri, V. Cannavò, E. Clò, Andrea DI Renzoni, A. Florenzano, E. Rattighieri, D. Yoon, S.T. Levi. Palynology of San Vincenzo-Stromboli: Interdisciplinary perspective for the diachronic palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of an island of Sicily. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 2020; 30 ():102235.

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A.M. Mercuri; V. Cannavò; E. Clò; Andrea DI Renzoni; A. Florenzano; E. Rattighieri; D. Yoon; S.T. Levi. 2020. "Palynology of San Vincenzo-Stromboli: Interdisciplinary perspective for the diachronic palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of an island of Sicily." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 30, no. : 102235.

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Published: 24 July 2019 in The Holocene
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This paper presents the first pedoanthracological study carried out on two mountains of the Northern Apennines, Monte Cimone, and Corno alle Scale, where the results provided new palaeoenvironmental data. The pedoantracological sampling followed an elevation gradient from the current timberline to the highest possible elevation, also adapted to the geomorphological characteristics of the study areas. Based on radiocarbon datings (16 at Monte Cimone and 9 at Corno alle Scale), the soil charcoal fragments provided data about the vegetation dynamics and plant landscape reconstruction, primarily indicating the Late Holocene. The landscape over the last 3000 years appears very similar to the current one with very small altitudinal variations of the timberline and treeline. The present study shows a lack of radiocarbon dates for the Middle Holocene and two hypotheses are discussed to explain this finding. Data suggest that past fires were locally linked to periods of climate optimum and possibly with the management of natural resources (especially animal grazing) by human societies. Some questions concerning the absence of Abies alba, today only present as plantation and normally associated with Fagus sylvatica at these latitudes, are discussed.

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Alessandra Benatti; Marie Bal; Philippe Allée; Giovanna Bosi; Anna Maria Mercuri. Plant landscape reconstruction above the current timberline at the Monte Cimone and Corno alle Scale mountain areas (Northern Apennines, Italy) during the Late Holocene: The evidence from soil charcoal. The Holocene 2019, 29, 1767 -1781.

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Alessandra Benatti, Marie Bal, Philippe Allée, Giovanna Bosi, Anna Maria Mercuri. Plant landscape reconstruction above the current timberline at the Monte Cimone and Corno alle Scale mountain areas (Northern Apennines, Italy) during the Late Holocene: The evidence from soil charcoal. The Holocene. 2019; 29 (11):1767-1781.

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Alessandra Benatti; Marie Bal; Philippe Allée; Giovanna Bosi; Anna Maria Mercuri. 2019. "Plant landscape reconstruction above the current timberline at the Monte Cimone and Corno alle Scale mountain areas (Northern Apennines, Italy) during the Late Holocene: The evidence from soil charcoal." The Holocene 29, no. 11: 1767-1781.

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Published: 09 May 2019 in The Holocene
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The high-resolution Adriatic RF93-30 core shows changes in its microcharcoal record, which correlate to terrestrial fires from the last 7000 years. Pollen and microcharcoals were transported by wind and fluvial transport from the sedimentary basin, including the Po River and other rivers flowing into the sea off the Italian east coast. Charcoal particles and pollen were counted in the same samples, and the maximum breadth and length of charcoal particles were measured. Microcharcoals with large dimensions were taken as fire indicators occurring along the near coast, as they probably arrived from short distances, the nearest being in Apulia, in southern Italy. The age–depth model was developed within the multidisciplinary PALICLAS project. Several potential fire activity increases (PFAIs) were visible as peaks in the diagram. The oldest PFAIs occurred at the middle Holocene (approximately dated to c. 6730, 5430, 4150 cal BP), others occurred at the late Holocene ( c. 3760, 2660, 2240, 2030, 1930, 1510 cal BP) and during the last millennium ( c. 900–865, 530, 120–96 cal BP). The two oldest peaks in the diagram, occurring in the 7th–6th millennia, showed the highest contribution of charcoal corresponding to the highest values of arboreal pollen (AP) in the sedimentary record. Although the CHAR peaks did not represent a single fire event, the diagram suggests a good correspondence between paleofire activity and terrestrial vegetation biomass during this early phase. Pollen containing black particles was observed, which suggested some grains were transported in suspension with winds from burned woods. The main unambiguous anthropogenic fire causation would have occurred during the last four millennia. From 4.2 ka, it became hard to disentangle climate and Bronze Age actions. Technology and human activity probably improved the pace of fire events, especially involving oak woods, with evidence of an increase of CHAR during the last millennium.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano; Rita Terenziani; Elisa Furia; Daniele Dallai; Paola Torri. Middle- to late-Holocene fire history and the impact on Mediterranean pine and oak forests according to the core RF93-30, central Adriatic Sea. The Holocene 2019, 29, 1362 -1376.

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Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano, Rita Terenziani, Elisa Furia, Daniele Dallai, Paola Torri. Middle- to late-Holocene fire history and the impact on Mediterranean pine and oak forests according to the core RF93-30, central Adriatic Sea. The Holocene. 2019; 29 (8):1362-1376.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano; Rita Terenziani; Elisa Furia; Daniele Dallai; Paola Torri. 2019. "Middle- to late-Holocene fire history and the impact on Mediterranean pine and oak forests according to the core RF93-30, central Adriatic Sea." The Holocene 29, no. 8: 1362-1376.

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Published: 27 March 2019 in Climate of the Past
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The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence is controversial and contradictory, and issues remain regarding timing, progression, and regional articulation of this event. In this paper, we review the evidence from selected proxies (sea-surface temperature, precipitation, and temperature reconstructed from pollen, δ18O on speleothems, and δ18O on lacustrine carbonate) over the Mediterranean Basin to infer possible regional climate patterns during the interval between 4.3 and 3.8 ka. The values and limitations of these proxies are discussed, and their potential for furnishing information on seasonality is also explored. Despite the chronological uncertainties, which are the main limitations for disentangling details of the climatic conditions, the data suggest that winter over the Mediterranean involved drier conditions, in addition to already dry summers. However, some exceptions to this prevail – where wetter conditions seem to have persisted – suggesting regional heterogeneity in climate patterns. Temperature data, even if sparse, also suggest a cooling anomaly, even if this is not uniform. The most common paradigm to interpret the precipitation regime in the Mediterranean – a North Atlantic Oscillation-like pattern – is not completely satisfactory to interpret the selected data.

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Monica Bini; Giovanni Zanchetta; Aurel Perşoiu; Rosine Cartier; Albert Català; Isabel Cacho; Jonathan R. Dean; Federico Di Rita; Russell Drysdale; Martin Finné; Ilaria Isola; Bassem Jalali; Fabrizio Lirer; Donatella Magri; Alessia Masi; Leszek Marks; Anna Maria Mercuri; Odile Peyron; Laura Sadori; Marie-Alexandrine Sicre; Fabian Welc; Christoph Zielhofer; Elodie Brisset. The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview. Climate of the Past 2019, 15, 555 -577.

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Monica Bini, Giovanni Zanchetta, Aurel Perşoiu, Rosine Cartier, Albert Català, Isabel Cacho, Jonathan R. Dean, Federico Di Rita, Russell Drysdale, Martin Finné, Ilaria Isola, Bassem Jalali, Fabrizio Lirer, Donatella Magri, Alessia Masi, Leszek Marks, Anna Maria Mercuri, Odile Peyron, Laura Sadori, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Fabian Welc, Christoph Zielhofer, Elodie Brisset. The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview. Climate of the Past. 2019; 15 (2):555-577.

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Monica Bini; Giovanni Zanchetta; Aurel Perşoiu; Rosine Cartier; Albert Català; Isabel Cacho; Jonathan R. Dean; Federico Di Rita; Russell Drysdale; Martin Finné; Ilaria Isola; Bassem Jalali; Fabrizio Lirer; Donatella Magri; Alessia Masi; Leszek Marks; Anna Maria Mercuri; Odile Peyron; Laura Sadori; Marie-Alexandrine Sicre; Fabian Welc; Christoph Zielhofer; Elodie Brisset. 2019. "The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview." Climate of the Past 15, no. 2: 555-577.

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Published: 15 February 2019 in The Holocene
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Archaeobotany is used to discover details on local land uses in prehistoric settlements developed during the middle and beginning of late Holocene. Six archaeological sites from four countries (Spain, Italy, Greece, and Turkey) have pollen and charcoal records showing clear signs of the agrarian systems that had developed in the Mediterranean basin during different cultural phases, from pre-Neolithic to Recent Bronze Age. A selected list of pollen taxa and sums, including cultivated trees, other woody species, crops and annual or perennial synanthropic plants are analysed for land use reconstructions. In general, cultivation has a lower image in palynology than forestry, and past land uses became visible when oakwoods were affected by human activities. On-site palynology allows us to recognise the first influence of humans even before it can be recognised in off-site sequences, and off-site sequences can allow us to determine the area of influence of a site. Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological sites show similar land use dynamics implying oak exploitation, causing local deforestation, and cultivation of cereal fields in the area or around the site. Although a substantial difference makes the Neolithic influence quite distant from the Bronze Age impact, mixed systems of land exploitation emerged everywhere. Multiple land use activities exist (multifunctional landscapes) at the same time within the area of influence of a site. Since the Neolithic, people have adopted a diffuse pattern of land use involving a combination of diverse activities, using trees–crops–domesticated animals. The most recurrent combination included wood exploitation, field cultivation and animal breeding. The lesson from the past is that the multifunctional land use, combining sylvo-pastoral and crop farming mixed systems, has been widely adopted for millennia, being more sustainable than the monoculture and a promising way to develop our economy.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano; Francesc Burjachs; Marco Giardini; Katerina Kouli; Alessia Masi; Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert; Jordi Revelles; Laura Sadori; Gabriel Servera-Vives; Paola Torri; Ralph Fyfe. From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP). The Holocene 2019, 29, 830 -846.

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Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano, Francesc Burjachs, Marco Giardini, Katerina Kouli, Alessia Masi, Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert, Jordi Revelles, Laura Sadori, Gabriel Servera-Vives, Paola Torri, Ralph Fyfe. From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP). The Holocene. 2019; 29 (5):830-846.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano; Francesc Burjachs; Marco Giardini; Katerina Kouli; Alessia Masi; Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert; Jordi Revelles; Laura Sadori; Gabriel Servera-Vives; Paola Torri; Ralph Fyfe. 2019. "From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)." The Holocene 29, no. 5: 830-846.

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Published: 14 February 2019 in The Holocene
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Olive ( Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin. Different views have been expressed regarding the geographical origins and timing of olive cultivation. Since genetic studies and macro-botanical remains point in different directions, we turn to another proxy – the palynological evidence. This study uses pollen records to shed new light on the history of olive cultivation and large-scale olive management. We employ a fossil pollen dataset composed of high-resolution pollen records obtained across the Mediterranean Basin covering most of the Holocene. Human activity is indicated when Olea pollen percentages rise fairly suddenly, are not accompanied by an increase of other Mediterranean sclerophyllous trees, and when the rise occurs in combination with consistent archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence. Based on these criteria, our results show that the southern Levant served as the locus of primary olive cultivation as early as ~6500 years BP (yBP), and that a later, early/mid 6th millennium BP cultivation process occurred in the Aegean (Crete) – whether as an independent large-scale management event or as a result of knowledge and/or seedling transfer from the southern Levant. Thus, the early management of olive trees corresponds to the establishment of the Mediterranean village economy and the completion of the ‘secondary products revolution’, rather than urbanization or state formation. From these two areas of origin, the southern Levant and the Aegean olive cultivation spread across the Mediterranean, with the beginning of olive horticulture in the northern Levant dated to ~4800 yBP. In Anatolia, large-scale olive horticulture was palynologically recorded by ~3200 yBP, in mainland Italy at ~3400 yBP, and in the Iberian Peninsula at mid/late 3rd millennium BP.

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Dafna Langgut; Rachid Cheddadi; Jose Carrion; Mark Cavanagh; Daniele Colombaroli; Warren John Eastwood; Raphael Greenberg; Thomas Litt; Anna Maria Mercuri; Andrea Miebach; C Neil Roberts; Henk Woldring; Jessie Woodbridge. The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence. The Holocene 2019, 29, 902 -922.

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Dafna Langgut, Rachid Cheddadi, Jose Carrion, Mark Cavanagh, Daniele Colombaroli, Warren John Eastwood, Raphael Greenberg, Thomas Litt, Anna Maria Mercuri, Andrea Miebach, C Neil Roberts, Henk Woldring, Jessie Woodbridge. The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence. The Holocene. 2019; 29 (5):902-922.

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Dafna Langgut; Rachid Cheddadi; Jose Carrion; Mark Cavanagh; Daniele Colombaroli; Warren John Eastwood; Raphael Greenberg; Thomas Litt; Anna Maria Mercuri; Andrea Miebach; C Neil Roberts; Henk Woldring; Jessie Woodbridge. 2019. "The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence." The Holocene 29, no. 5: 902-922.

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Published: 13 February 2019 in The Holocene
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This paper compares changes in vegetation structure and composition (using synthetic fossil pollen data) with proxy data for population levels (including settlements and radiocarbon dates) over the course of the last 10 millennia in Tyrrhenian central Italy. These data show generalised patterns of clearance of woodland in response both to early agriculturalists and urbanism, as well as the specific adoption of tree crops and variations in stock grazing. The results provide a comprehensive understanding of the development of the anthropogenised landscape of one of the most important early centres of European civilisation, showing regional trends as well as local variations.

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Simon Stoddart; Jessie Woodbridge; Alessio Palmisano; Anna Maria Mercuri; Scott Andrew Mensing; Daniele Colombaroli; Laura Sadori; Donatella Magri; Federico Di Rita; Marco Giardini; Marta Mariotti Lippi; Carlo Montanari; Cristina Bellini; Assunta Florenzano; Paola Torri; Andrew Bevan; Stephen Shennan; Ralph Fyfe; C Neil Roberts. Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology. The Holocene 2019, 29, 761 -775.

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Simon Stoddart, Jessie Woodbridge, Alessio Palmisano, Anna Maria Mercuri, Scott Andrew Mensing, Daniele Colombaroli, Laura Sadori, Donatella Magri, Federico Di Rita, Marco Giardini, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Carlo Montanari, Cristina Bellini, Assunta Florenzano, Paola Torri, Andrew Bevan, Stephen Shennan, Ralph Fyfe, C Neil Roberts. Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology. The Holocene. 2019; 29 (5):761-775.

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Simon Stoddart; Jessie Woodbridge; Alessio Palmisano; Anna Maria Mercuri; Scott Andrew Mensing; Daniele Colombaroli; Laura Sadori; Donatella Magri; Federico Di Rita; Marco Giardini; Marta Mariotti Lippi; Carlo Montanari; Cristina Bellini; Assunta Florenzano; Paola Torri; Andrew Bevan; Stephen Shennan; Ralph Fyfe; C Neil Roberts. 2019. "Tyrrhenian central Italy: Holocene population and landscape ecology." The Holocene 29, no. 5: 761-775.

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Published: 15 January 2019 in Sustainability
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This is not the first time the Earth has to experience dramatic environmental and climate changes but this seems to be the first time that a living species—humanity—is able to understand that great changes are taking place rapidly and that probably natural and anthropogenic forces are involved in the process that is under way

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano. The Long-Term Perspective of Human Impact on Landscape for Environmental Change (LoTEC) and Sustainability: From Botany to the Interdisciplinary Approach. Sustainability 2019, 11, 413 .

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Anna Maria Mercuri, Assunta Florenzano. The Long-Term Perspective of Human Impact on Landscape for Environmental Change (LoTEC) and Sustainability: From Botany to the Interdisciplinary Approach. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (2):413.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Assunta Florenzano. 2019. "The Long-Term Perspective of Human Impact on Landscape for Environmental Change (LoTEC) and Sustainability: From Botany to the Interdisciplinary Approach." Sustainability 11, no. 2: 413.

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Published: 01 January 2019 in Quaternary International
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Anna Maria Mercuri; Maria Chiara Montecchi; Assunta Florenzano; Eleonora Rattighieri; Paola Torri; Daniele Dallai; Emanuele Vaccaro. The Late Antique plant landscape in Sicily: Pollen from the agro-pastoral villa del Casale - Philosophiana system. Quaternary International 2019, 499, 24 -34.

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Anna Maria Mercuri, Maria Chiara Montecchi, Assunta Florenzano, Eleonora Rattighieri, Paola Torri, Daniele Dallai, Emanuele Vaccaro. The Late Antique plant landscape in Sicily: Pollen from the agro-pastoral villa del Casale - Philosophiana system. Quaternary International. 2019; 499 ():24-34.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; Maria Chiara Montecchi; Assunta Florenzano; Eleonora Rattighieri; Paola Torri; Daniele Dallai; Emanuele Vaccaro. 2019. "The Late Antique plant landscape in Sicily: Pollen from the agro-pastoral villa del Casale - Philosophiana system." Quaternary International 499, no. : 24-34.

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Published: 15 November 2018
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The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence are controversial and contradictory, and issues remain regarding timing, progression and regional articulation of this event. In this paper we review the evidence from selected proxies (sea-surface temperature, precipitation and temperature reconstructed from pollen, δ18O on speleothems, and δ18O on lacustrine carbonate) over the Mediterranean basin to infer possible regional climate patterns during the interval between 4.3 and 3.8 cal ka BP. The values and limitations of these proxies are discussed, and their potential for furnishing information on seasonality is also explored. Despite the chronological uncertainties, which are the main limitations for disentangling details of the climatic conditions, the data suggests that winter over the Mediterranean was drier condition, in addition to already dry summers. However, some exceptions to this prevail, – where wetter condition seems to have persisted – suggesting regional heterogeneity in climate patterns. Temperature data, even if sparse, also suggest a cooling anomaly, even if this is not uniform. The most common paradigm to interpret the precipitation regime in the Mediterranean – a North Atlantic Oscillation-like pattern – is not completely satisfactory to interpret the selected data.

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Monica Bini; Giovanni Zanchetta; Aurel Persoiu; Rosine Cartier; Albert Català; Isabel Cacho; Jonathan R. Dean; Federico Di Rita; Russell N. Drysdale; Martin Finnè; Ilaria Isola; Bassem Jalali; Fabrizio Lirer; Donatella Magri; Alessia Masi; Leszek Marks; Anna Maria Mercuri; Odile Peyron; Laura Sadori; Marie-Alexandrine Sicre; Fabian Welc; Christoph Zielhofer; Elodie Brisset. The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean Region: an overview. 2018, 2018, 1 -36.

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Monica Bini, Giovanni Zanchetta, Aurel Persoiu, Rosine Cartier, Albert Català, Isabel Cacho, Jonathan R. Dean, Federico Di Rita, Russell N. Drysdale, Martin Finnè, Ilaria Isola, Bassem Jalali, Fabrizio Lirer, Donatella Magri, Alessia Masi, Leszek Marks, Anna Maria Mercuri, Odile Peyron, Laura Sadori, Marie-Alexandrine Sicre, Fabian Welc, Christoph Zielhofer, Elodie Brisset. The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean Region: an overview. . 2018; 2018 ():1-36.

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Monica Bini; Giovanni Zanchetta; Aurel Persoiu; Rosine Cartier; Albert Català; Isabel Cacho; Jonathan R. Dean; Federico Di Rita; Russell N. Drysdale; Martin Finnè; Ilaria Isola; Bassem Jalali; Fabrizio Lirer; Donatella Magri; Alessia Masi; Leszek Marks; Anna Maria Mercuri; Odile Peyron; Laura Sadori; Marie-Alexandrine Sicre; Fabian Welc; Christoph Zielhofer; Elodie Brisset. 2018. "The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean Region: an overview." 2018, no. : 1-36.

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Published: 08 November 2018
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Anna Maria Mercuri. The 4.2 kaBP event in the vegetation record of the central Mediterranean. 2018, 1 .

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Anna Maria Mercuri. The 4.2 kaBP event in the vegetation record of the central Mediterranean. . 2018; ():1.

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Anna Maria Mercuri. 2018. "The 4.2 kaBP event in the vegetation record of the central Mediterranean." , no. : 1.

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Published: 01 August 2018 in Plants and People in the African Past
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Africa with its impressive, deep history and ecosystem diversity continues to offer an ideal setting to expand our frontiers of understanding plants and people in the past. Early and unique interrelationships between humans and plants make Africa a critical reference point for interdisciplinary studies of cultural developments and environmental transformations.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; A. Catherine D’Andrea; Rita Fornaciari; Alexa Höhn. Plants and People in the African Past: Themes and Objectives of Archaeobotany. Plants and People in the African Past 2018, 1 -9.

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Anna Maria Mercuri, A. Catherine D’Andrea, Rita Fornaciari, Alexa Höhn. Plants and People in the African Past: Themes and Objectives of Archaeobotany. Plants and People in the African Past. 2018; ():1-9.

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Anna Maria Mercuri; A. Catherine D’Andrea; Rita Fornaciari; Alexa Höhn. 2018. "Plants and People in the African Past: Themes and Objectives of Archaeobotany." Plants and People in the African Past , no. : 1-9.

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Published: 01 August 2018 in Plants and People in the African Past
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This multiscalar study explores Holocene environmental changes across the Sahara, within the eastern Sahara, and along the Nile in northern Sudan. The Early Holocene saw increased moisture across most parts of northern Africa after c. 10,000 BC, with peak humid conditions 7800–7000 BC. A short but significant dry interval after c. 7000 BC was followed by wetter conditions around 6000 BC, and then a gradual aridification from 5000 BC. The latter dry phase has continued until present times. The exceptional environments near the Nile are known to have seen impressive variations as climate oscillations and flora left traces in the palaeobotanical record. Multidisciplinary archaeological studies in this area—including analysis of plant macroremains—have focused on the transitions from hunting-fishing-gathering (Khartoum Variant) to pastoralism (Abkan) and later to agro-pastoralism (Pre-Kerma). The palynological data from four Sai Island sites (8-B-10C, 8-B-76, 8-B-81, and 8-B-10A) and the nearby mainland site of Amara West (2-R-66) provide new perspectives on local environmental shifts during this time of profound economic and social change. Despite poor pollen preservation, the high number of samples enables comparisons that show both diachronic changes and synchronic variation. Since the earliest phases, pollen spectra reflect mixed flora from various habitats and some seasonal variability. During the Early Holocene and the initial part of the Middle Holocene, dramatic floods on Sai’s east side and seasonal desiccation on Sai’s west side together created an ecological mosaic that exposed people to several different habitat types within a short distance. These included swamps and marshes, wooded savannas, grasslands and desert savanna, providing access to plants used for food, medicine, and other purposes. Documenting localized patterns of vegetation variation and change can lay important groundwork for explaining changes in subsistence and social organization.

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Elisabeth Hildebrand; Elena A. A. Garcea; Assunta Florenzano; Anna Maria Mercuri. Multiscalar Perspectives on Holocene Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Sahara and Nile Corridor, with Special Consideration of Archaeological Sites on Sai Island, Sudan. Plants and People in the African Past 2018, 215 -245.

AMA Style

Elisabeth Hildebrand, Elena A. A. Garcea, Assunta Florenzano, Anna Maria Mercuri. Multiscalar Perspectives on Holocene Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Sahara and Nile Corridor, with Special Consideration of Archaeological Sites on Sai Island, Sudan. Plants and People in the African Past. 2018; ():215-245.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Elisabeth Hildebrand; Elena A. A. Garcea; Assunta Florenzano; Anna Maria Mercuri. 2018. "Multiscalar Perspectives on Holocene Climatic and Environmental Changes in the Sahara and Nile Corridor, with Special Consideration of Archaeological Sites on Sai Island, Sudan." Plants and People in the African Past , no. : 215-245.