Millennial-scale cycles of aridity as a driver of human occupancy in central Spain?

Pluridisciplinary analysis and multi-archive reconstruction of paleofloods: Societal demand, challenges and progress

“…The first aspect is that the development of multi-archive flood records is a relatively modern approach. Over the last two decades, a growing number of studies have reconstructed flood records spanning centuries and millennia from fluvial sediments, lake deposits, speleothems or tree-rings (Baker, 1987;Benito et al, 2004;Schulte et al, 2008Schulte et al, , 2009bWilhelm et al, 2012;Díez-Herrero et al, 2013;Wirth et al, 2013, Schillereff et al, 2014Ballesteros-Cánovas et al, 2014;Santisteban et al, 2017;Denniston and Lütscher, 2017). These data series were largely confined to comparisons of paleoflood series with historical sources and instrumental measurement of discharge and precipitation.…”

“…Multi-proxy approaches have become standard in paleoenvironmental and paleoflood research (Santisteban et al, 2017;Wilhelm et al, 2019), whereas multi-archive studies in sensu strictu which integrate more than three different types of flood archives are extremely rare (Schulte et al, 2015). This presents opportunities for creative researchers to open doors to a fascinating world where they can explore, combine, disentangle and test several combinations of flood archives.…”

Holocene floods in a complex fluvial wetland in central Spain: Environmental variability, climate and time

“…For this reason, they must be compared at different spatial scales to extract hints about the forcings controlling their evolution. There are no existing studies covering Holocene paleofloods in the upper Guadiana River basin and only few providing paleoclimate or paleohydrological records for a period longer than the documentary period (Dorado et al, 2002;Santisteban et al, 2017b) so comparisons must be done to other studies in the western Mediterranean area (Fig. 9).…”

El factor límite en la formulación del discurso del Bronce de La Mancha: los Montes de Toledo como modelo

“…Definida acertadamente como una arqueología de asentamientos (Fernández Posse et al 2008: 14), la falta de datos ha sido el común denominador en todos los planteamientos teóricos propuestos hasta la fecha, ya sea desde el difusionismo (Nájera y Molina 1977;Nieto Gallo y Sánchez Meseguer 1980), funcionalismo (Chapman 1990) o el materialismo histórico (Gilman 1995). Hoy en día se tiende a invocar esta falta de datos como la principal causa de estancamiento, si bien es cierto que también asistimos a nuevos planteamientos centrados en aspectos tan dispares como el cambio climático o el mundo funerario (Nájera et al 2010;Benítez de Lugo Enrich et al 2014;Mejías Moreno et al 2015;Santisteban et al 2016;Blanco González et al 2018;Benítez de Lugo Enrich 2018). Quizá el punto intermedio sea el equilibrio entre las diferentes posturas, asumiendo de forma crítica lo limitado de la muestra (Hodder y Hutson 2003).…”