Beyond one-way determinism: San Frediano's miracle and climate change in Central and Northern Italy in late antiquity.

ABSTRACT: Integrating palaeoclimatological proxies and historical records, which is necessary to achieve a more complete understanding of climate impacts on past societies, is a challenging task, often leading to unsatisfactory and even contradictory conclusions. This has until recently been the case for Italy, the heart of the Roman Empire, during the transition between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In this paper, we present new high-resolution speleothem data from the Apuan Alps (Central Italy). The data document a period of very wet conditions in the sixth c. AD, probably related to synoptic atmospheric conditions similar to a negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation. For this century, there also exist a significant number of historical records of extreme hydroclimatic events, previously

SUBMITTER: Zanchetta G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8550300 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature