2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility
- U. Büntgen, Willy Tegel, J. Esper
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 4 February 2011
Reconstruction of tree ring–based reconstructions of central European summer precipitation and temperature variability over the past 2500 years may provide a basis for counteracting the recent political and fiscal reluctance to mitigate projected climate change.
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD
- U. Büntgen, V. Myglan, A. Kirdyanov
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 March 2016
Societal upheaval occurred across Eurasia in the sixth and seventh centuries. Tree-ring reconstructions suggest a period of pronounced cooling during this time associated with several volcanic…
Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence
- M. McCormick, U. Büntgen, Willy Tegel
- HistoryJournal of Interdisciplinary History
- 27 July 2012
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…
The consilience of historical and isotopic approaches in reconstructing the medieval Mediterranean diet
- M. Salamon, A. Coppa, M. McCormick, M. Rubini, R. Vargiu, N. Tuross
- Geography
- 1 June 2008
Origins of the European economy : communications and commerce, A.D. 300-900
- M. McCormick
- History, Economics
- 17 January 2002
Commerce, communications and the origins of the European economy Part I. The End of the World: 1. The end of the ancient world 2. Late Roman industry: case studies in decline 3. Land and river…
Origins of the European Economy
- M. McCormick
- History, Economics
- 2001
For fifty years debate has raged about early European commerce during the period between antiquity and the middle ages. Was there trade? If so, in what - and with whom? New evidence and new ways of…
Ancient Yersinia pestis genomes from across Western Europe reveal early diversification during the First Pandemic (541–750)
- Marcel Keller, M. Spyrou, J. Krause
- BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 29 November 2018
Eight genomes from Britain, France, Germany, and Spain are presented, demonstrating the geographic range of plague during the First Pandemic and showing microdiversity in the Early Medieval Period, and a methodological approach assessing single-nucleotide polymorphisms in ancient bacterial genomes is presented, facilitating qualitative analyses of low coverage genomes from a metagenomic background.
Eternal Victory: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West
- M. McCormick
- History
- 27 March 1987
Foreword Note to the paperback edition Abbreviations Introduction: imperial triumph as a historical problem 1. Invincible empire: the ideology of victiry under the principate 2. Out of the streets…
A High-Coverage Yersinia pestis Genome from a Sixth-Century Justinianic Plague Victim
- M. Feldman, M. Harbeck, J. Krause
- BiologyMolecular biology and evolution
- 30 August 2016
A new high-coverage (17.9-fold) Y. pestis genome obtained from a sixth-century skeleton recovered from a southern German burial site enables the detection of 30 unique substitutions as well as structural differences that have not been previously described.
Rats, Communications, and Plague: Toward an Ecological History
- M. McCormick
- HistoryJournal of Interdisciplinary History
- 3 June 2003
New data from archaeozoological research make a great contribution to the understanding of the bubonic plagues of the sixth and the fourteenth centuries, as well as to the history of the communications and economic systems linking the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.
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