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Anna Maria Mercuri is affiliated with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Archeology, Plant Science, Paleontology, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work covers a broad array of topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Tree-ring climate responses, Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Mercuri has contributed to numerous publications, with recent papers emphasizing prehistoric agricultural practices, environmental changes, and Mediterranean ecosystem dynamics. These include:

  • New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2 (2020, Earth system science data)
  • Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • 1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial-interglacial cycle strength (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Wine consumption in Bronze Age Italy: combining organic residue analysis, botanical data and ceramic variability (2020, Journal of Archaeological Science)

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including Assunta Florenzano, Eleonora Clò, Paola Torri, Gabriel Servera-Vives, and Eleonora Rattighieri. These collaborative efforts have led to substantial contributions in their fields of study.

Mercuri has published extensively in the following scientific venues:

  • Quaternary
  • Quaternary International
  • Sustainability
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Scientific Reports

The research focuses primarily on synthesizing paleontological and archaeological data to understand environmental changes through geological timescales, especially in the Mediterranean region.

Best Publications

  • Earliest direct evidence of plant processing in prehistoric Saharan pottery.

    Julie Dunne;Anna Maria Mercuri;Richard P. Evershed;Silvia Bruni

  • The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview

    Monica Bini;Giovanni Zanchetta;Aurel Perşoiu;Rosine Cartier

  • Palaeoclimate and the Formation of Sapropel S1: Inferences from Late Quaternary Lacustrine and Marine Sequences in the Central Mediterranean Region

    D. Ariztegui;A. Asioli;J.J. Lowe;F. Trincardi

  • Mediterranean and north-African cultural adaptations to mid-Holocene environmental and climatic changes

    Anna Maria Mercuri;Laura Sadori;Paloma Uzquiano Ollero

  • Lakeside cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 years of holocene population and environmental change.

    Paul C. Sereno;Elena A. A. Garcea;Hélène Jousse;Christopher M. Stojanowski

  • Olea, Juglans and Castanea: The OJC group as pollen evidence of the development of human-induced environments in the Italian peninsula

    A.M. Mercuri;M. Bandini Mazzanti;A. Florenzano;M.C. Montecchi

  • The long history of Cannabis and its cultivation by the Romans in central Italy, shown by pollen records from Lago Albano and Lago di Nemi

    Anna Maria Mercuri;Carla Alberta Accorsi;Marta Bandini Mazzanti

  • A high resolution late Holocene palaeo environmental record from the central Adriatic Sea

    F Oldfield;A Asioli;C A Accorsi;A M Mercuri

  • Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka

    Laura Sadori;Andreas Koutsodendris;Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos;Alessia Masi

  • Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years

    Bernd Wagner;Hendrik Vogel;Alexander Francke;Alexander Francke;Tobias Friedrich

  • Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean

    Adam Izdebski;Karin Holmgren;Erika Weiberg;Sharon R. Stocker

  • The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence:

    Dafna Langgut;Rachid Cheddadi;Josѐ Sebastián Carrión;Mark Cavanagh

  • A marine/terrestrial integration for mid-late Holocene vegetation history and the development of the cultural landscape in the Po valley as a result of human impact and climate change

    Anna Maria Mercuri;Marta Bandini Mazzanti;Paola Torri;Luigi Vigliotti

  • New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe.

    Dragana Filipović;John Meadows;Marta Dal Corso;Wiebke Kirleis

  • The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

    Basil A S Davis;Marco Zanon;Pamella Collins;Achille Mauri

  • Economy and environment of Bronze Age settlements – Terramaras – on the Po Plain (Northern Italy): first results from the archaeobotanical research at the Terramara di Montale

    Anna Maria Mercuri;Carla Alberta Accorsi;Marta Bandini Mazzanti;Giovanna Bosi

  • Human influence, plant landscape evolution and climate inferences from the archaeobotanical records of the Wadi Teshuinat area (Libyan Sahara)

    Anna Maria Mercuri

  • Plant exploitation and ethnopalynological evidence from the Wadi Teshuinat area (Tadrart Acacus, Libyan Sahara)

    Anna Maria Mercuri

  • Inside the "African Cattle Complex": Animal Burials in the Holocene Central Sahara

    Savino di Lernia;Savino di Lernia;Mary Anne Tafuri;Mary Anne Tafuri;Marina Gallinaro;Francesca Alhaique;Francesca Alhaique

  • Plants and Culture: seeds of the cultural heritage of Europe.

    J. P. Morel;Anna Maria Mercuri

  • Human influence, plant landscape evolution and climate inferences from the archaeobotanical records of the Wadi Teshuinat area

    A. M. Mercuri

  • REALISING CONSILIENCE: HOW BETTER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS AND GEOSCIENTISTS CAN TRANSFORM THE STUDY OF PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

    Alessia Masi;Laura Sadori;Ulf Büntgen;Maria Triantaphyllou

  • A high resolution late Holocene palaeo environmental record from the central Adriatic Sea | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository

    F. Oldfield;A. Asioli;L. Vogliotti;M. Frignani

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Sadori
Laura Sadori Sapienza University of Rome
Andrea Zerboni
Andrea Zerboni University of Milan
Mauro Cremaschi
Mauro Cremaschi University of Milan
Adele Bertini
Adele Bertini University of Florence
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout
Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout French National Museum of Natural History
Fabio Trincardi
Fabio Trincardi National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Alessandra Asioli
Alessandra Asioli University of Padua
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Odile Peyron
Odile Peyron University of Montpellier
Suzanne A.G. Leroy
Suzanne A.G. Leroy University of Liverpool

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