Response of the Akrotiri Marsh, island of Cyprus, to Bronze Age climate change

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Hazell, Calian, Pound, Matthew, Hocking, Emma
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Marsh Island; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/48012/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110788; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/48012/1/1-s2.0-S0031018221005733-main.pdf

Here we present two multiproxy records covering the last 5000 years from the Akrotiri Marsh in southern Cyprus. Pollen and diatom analysis of radiocarbon dated marsh sediments with an average chronological resolution of one date every thousand years, reveal expansion and contraction of the marsh in...