Alan Kirman

Past Agricultural Productivity

From Paleoclimate Variables to Prehistoric Agriculture: Using a Process-Based Agroecosystem Model to Simulate the Impacts of Holocene Climate Change on Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence, France

This paper explores the relationship between past climate and prehistoric Mediterranean agriculture by adapting a process-based dynamic vegetation model to estimate potential …

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Past Agricultural Productivity

Regional Paleoclimates and Local Consequences: Integrating GIS Analysis of Diachronic Settlement Patterns and Process-Based Agro-ecosystem Modeling of Potential Agricultural Productivity in Provence (France)

Holocene climate variability in the Mediterranean Basin is often cited as a potential driver of societal change, but the mechanisms of this putative influence are generally little …

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Daniel A. Contreras
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Past Agricultural Productivity

Reaching the Human Scale: A Spatial and Temporal Downscaling Approach to the Archaeological Implications of Paleoclimate Data

Assessing the implications of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental data at temporal and spatial scales that would have directly intersected with human decision-making and activity …

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Daniel A. Contreras
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