Elena Marinova

TL;DR: Previously undescribed stable isotope determinations of charred cereals and pulses from 13 Neolithic sites across Europe show that early farmers used livestock manure and water management to enhance crop yields and suggest that commonly applied paleodietary interpretations of human and herbivore δ15N values have systematically underestimated the contribution of crop-derived protein to early farmer diets.

TL;DR: This article analyzed sedimentary charcoal records to show that the changes in fire regime over the past 21,000 yrs are predictable from changes in regional climates and showed that fire increases monotonically with changes in temperature and peaks at intermediate moisture levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, a compilation of up-to-date, best available quantitative and semi-quantitative records of past climate and biotic response from Central and Eastern Europe covering this period is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of crop and weed species from 33 Bandkeramik sites from Austria and Germany and six Bulgarian Neolithic sites is presented to investigate whether the early cultivation system brought in from the eastern Mediterranean was adapted to European conditions in Bulgaria or further West.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a high-resolution, multi-proxy analysis of a lacustrine sequence located in the lowlands of Transylvania (NW Romania), alongside global climate simulations in order to disentangle the drivers of fire regimes in this dry climatic region of Central-Eastern Europe.