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List of papers
Session 1: Holocene climate reconstruction
| Bar-Matthews, M. & Ayalon, A, | Is there is a link between the Prehistory of Israel and paleoclimate? The speleothems realm. |
| Holmgren, K. & Finné, M. | Holocene Climate Variability in the Eastern Mediterranean Region |
| Jensen, G. M. | Climate Change and Human Occupation in Denmark and the Middle East. |
| Koopman, A., Kluiving, S.J. & Wendrich, W. | Geoarchaeological reconstruction of lake shore habitation of Meso- and Neolithic cultures during dynamic environmental conditions in the Fayum basin, Egypt. Evidence for Holocene climatic change or variations in local drainage conditions? |
| Kuzucuoglu C., Aydin H., Ekmekçi M., Fontugne M. & Gauthier A. | Climate change and anthropogenic signals in Holocene sequences of north central-Anatolia |
| Pilaar, S. | The Holocene Fauna of Vela Špelja on the island of Lošinj, Croatia: Taphonomy, Ecology, and Subsistence in a Changing Environment |
| Plunkett, G., Swindles, G. T., McDermott, C. & Kerr, T. | A need for criticality in the interpretation of human responses to past climate change: examples from the Irish archaeological record |
| Roberts, N. | Holocene climate reconstruction: methods and applications with particular reference to the East Mediterranean region |
| Sillasoo, Ü. et al. | Linking past cultural developments to palaeoenvironmental changes in Estonia |
| Suratissa, D. M. & Tang Zhuo-Wei | Climatic, Cultural, Population and Foraging Changes through Chronology, Notheast China: Wangbabozi Historic Settlement-Late Neolithic to Weijing Dynasties |
| Sørensen, M. | The Thule Culture in relation to Changes in Climate and Environment in Northeast Greenland, 1400-1850 AD |
| Sørensen, L. & Casati, C. | The change of climate, mesolithic landscapes and settlement patterns during the Maglemose Culture on Bornholm, Denmark |
Session 2: Complex society's responses to climatic variation
| Akkermans, P., van der Plicht, J., Nieuwenhuyse, O., Russell, A. & Kaneda, A. | Cultural Transformation and the 8.2 ka event in Upper Mesopotamia |
| Bàrta, M. | Beetles and their significance for the collapse of the Old Kingdom Egypt |
| Biehl, P. F. | Climate and Social Change during the Transition between the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic in Central Anatolia |
| Ertsen, M. & Kaptijn, E. | A narrow place can contain a thousand friends: Irrigation as a response to climate in the zerqa triangle, Jordan |
| Kaniewski, D., Van Campo, E., Paulissen, E. & Van Lerberghe, K. | The Late Bronze Age collapse and the Ancient Dark Ages: a role of climate in cultural disruption? |
| Lovell, J., Robinson, S. & Blac, S. | Chalcolithic caves in Jordan - geological and archaeological explanation |
| Reitmaier, T., Karg, S., Haas, J. N., & Magny, M. | Evidence for the expansion of the cultural landscape in the European Alps between the 4th and 1st millennia BC |
| Simon, Z. | Climate Changes and Hittite History |
| Ur, Jason | Climatic Variation and Social Change in the Near East |
| Weiberg, E. & Finné, M. | Mind or matter? The demise of the EH II society revisited |
| Weiss, H. | Karstic aquifers and North Atlantic cyclogenesis: explaining 4.2kaBP West Asia social response variability |
| Wossink, A. | Social aspects of climate change: Reconsidering the emergence of the Amorites |
Session 3: Archaeological evidence for pollution and its ecological implications
| Arbuckle, B. | Evaluating the role of resource stress as a causal factor in the process of animal domestication |
| Chaix, L. & Honegger, M. | New data on the animals exploitation from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic periods in Northern Sudan |
| Krag, S. Haas, J. N., Wahlmüller, N., Waldner, E., Kneisel, J., Czebreszuk, J. & Müller, J. | Heavy lake pollution at the Early Bronze-Age settlement of Bruszczewo (Poland) |
| Linseele, V. & Newton, C. | Prehistoric anthropogenic impact on plant and animal communities of the Egyptian Nile Valley |
| Marshall, F. | Pollution, mobility and climate change: some African perspectives |
| Meadow, R. | Pollution is in the eye of the beholder - perspective matters. |
| Merrett, D. C. & Meiklejohnv, C. | Living at the edge: A major health risk of agricultural subsistence in marginal environments |
| Pásztókai-Szeike, J. & Serlegi, G. | "What have the Romans ever done for us?" |
| Weber, J. A. | "One man's trash is another man's treasure": feasting and decay as social markers at Tell Brak, Syria in the 4th millennium BC. |
| Wright, J. & Makarewicz, C. | Perceptions of range by Inner Asian pastoral nomads over the short and long term |
Session 4: Stable isotope analysis in the Middle East
| Al-Shorman, A. | Stable Oxygen Isotopes and Paleoclimate Studies on Human Apatite |
| Buchardt, B., Bunch, V. & Helin, P. | Fingernails and diet: stable isotope signatures of a modern marine hunting community from Uummannaq, North Greenland |
| Fiorentino, G. & Caracuta, V. | Environmental stress and anthropic resilience: new data from the carbon isotope analysis of Ebla and Qatna (NW Syria) charred plant remains |
| Frei, K. M. | Provenance studies of ancient textiles, a new method based on the Strontium Isotope System. |
| Makarewicz, C. | Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic approaches to identifying mobility in domestic caprines |
| Noe-Nygaard, N. | The application of stable isotopes in climatological, environmental and archaeological interpretations |
| Riehl, S. | Climate, Agriculture and Society - Understanding the reasons for non-sustainability of past agricultural systems in the Near East |
| Stokes, H. R. & Flohr, P. | Carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of cereals for reconstructing the ancient environment: problems and possible solutions |