In this session, we focus on the impact of abrupt and short-term climate and environmental changes on past societies and ecosystems during the Late Glacial and Holocene (~ last 14 600 years) across Europe and the Mediterranean regions. More specifically, we aim to understand how these changes affected environments and populations in pre-complex and early-complex societies, exploring resilience and adaptation.
We encourage contributions that bring together new data, interdisciplinary methods, and/or statistical modelling approaches to help disentangle the complex interactions between climate, environment, and human populations. Especially appreciated are high-resolution temporal studies that enable the detection of changes across time and space, and explore leads/lags in relation to climate change events.
Past-present comparisons on human resilience to environmental stress, as well as linking past dynamics to current and future regional climate changes are also welcome. This includes discussions on implications for current societies, contributing to the transdisciplinary debate.