A postglacial pollen diagram from Lake Van in east Anatolia

Geochemical correlation of archaeological sites using tephra from the Minoan eruption

“…4). This agrees perfectly with reported tephra findings in Anatolia and the Black Sea [15,[24][25]. Previous studies [26] repollJng tephra particles from the "Minoan" eruption even in Nile delta sediments not necessarily have to be considered erroneous, but might have investigated particles produced by fragmentation of alluvial pumice deposits or even by human use of pumice as abrasive.…”

“…Previous studies from our working group [ 12] showed significant differences between the bulk pumice and the pure glass fraction. The published locations, where Minoan tephra has been positively identified besides the Aegean islands and Mediterranean deep sea cores are K6ycegiz, G61ctik G61ti and G61hisar G61ti (Turkey) and deep sea cores from the Black Sea and Crete [15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. The estimated direction and extent of the tephra layer differs greatly if lacustrine and continental deposits or only deep-sea cores are considered.…”

Middle paleolithic to neolithic cultural history of North Iraq

“…7) 4 km southwest of the Shanidar cave on the Greater-Zab river and examined in this study with reassessment for Leroi-Gourhan (1969). Evidences of pollen diagrams of the nearby Lake Zeribar in eastern direction with the Iranian border (Zeist and Bottema 1977) and Lake Van in the northern direction within Turkey (Zeist and Woldring 1978) are also taken into consideration for re-assessments of the environmental changes. They are showing changing abundances of pollen especially between those before and after 10,870 years B.P.…”

Mid- to late-Holocene archaeology, environment and climate in the northeast Kurdistan region of Iraq

“…Paleoclimate records are mainly based on lake sediments from Iran (e.g., Snyder et al, 2001;van Zeist, 1966, van Zeist and Wright, 1963, Stevens et al, 2001 and Turkey (e.g., Wick et al, 2003;van Zeist and Woldring, 1978;Landmann et al, 1996;Roberts et al, 2001Dean et al, 2015 or marine sediments from the Mediterranean and Red Seas (e.g., Rohling et al, 2015). However, many records suffer from considerable chronological uncertainties due to limitations (e.g., lack of datable material or the so-called 'hardwater effect'; Roberts et al, 2011;Stevens et al, 2001Stevens et al, , 2006Rohling et al, 2002Arz et al, 2003.…”