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David Kaniewski is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Arts and Humanities. Within these broad disciplines, they concentrate on subfields such as Archeology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work addresses a range of scientific topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Maritime and Coastal Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Marine and environmental studies, Ancient Egypt and Archaeology, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and Tree-ring climate responses.

David Kaniewski has contributed to various journals and publication venues. Frequent venues in which they have published include Global and Planetary Change, Quaternary Science Reviews, Earth-Science Reviews, Anthropocene, and the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

Some of their recent papers are as follows:

  • Climate pacing of millennial sea-level change variability in the central and western Mediterranean, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Water deprivation as military strategy in the Middle East, 3.700 years ago, 2022, Méditerranée
  • Climate Change and Social Unrest: A 6,000-Year Chronicle From the Eastern Mediterranean, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Anthropocene tipping point reverses long-term Holocene cooling of the Mediterranean Sea: A meta-analysis of the basin's Sea Surface Temperature records, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Climate change threatens olive oil production in the Levant, 2023, Nature Plants

Collaborations have played a role in their academic contributions, with frequent co-authors including Nick Marriner, Christophe Morhange, Thierry Otto, Frédéric Luce, and Matteo Vacchi.

Best Publications

  • Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Elise Van Campo;Elise Van Campo;Joël Guiot;Sabine Le Burel;Sabine Le Burel

  • Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East.

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Elise Van Campo;Elise Van Campo;Tom Boiy;Jean-Frédéric Terral

  • Late second-early first millennium BC abrupt climate changes in coastal Syria and their possible significance for the history of the eastern Mediterranean

    D. Kaniewski;D. Kaniewski;D. Kaniewski;E. Paulissen;E. Van Campo;E. Van Campo;H. Weiss

  • Drought is a recurring challenge in the Middle East

    David Kaniewski;Elise Van Campo;Harvey Weiss

  • Middle East coastal ecosystem response to middle-to-late Holocene abrupt climate changes

    D. Kaniewski;E. Paulissen;E. Van Campo;M. Al-Maqdissi

  • Drought and societal collapse 3200 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean: a review

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Joël Guiot;Elise Van Campo;Elise Van Campo

  • ITCZ and ENSO-like pacing of Nile delta hydro-geomorphology during the Holocene

    Nick Marriner;Clément Flaux;David Kaniewski;Christophe Morhange

  • Nile Delta's sinking past: Quantifiable links with Holocene compaction and climate-driven changes in sediment supply?

    Nick Marriner;Clément Flaux;Christophe Morhange;David Kaniewski

  • A high-resolution Late Holocene landscape ecological history inferred from an intramontane basin in the Western Taurus Mountains, Turkey

    D. Kaniewski;E. Paulissen;V. De Laet;K. Dossche

  • Early urban impact on Mediterranean coastal environments.

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Elise Van Campo;Elise Van Campo;Christophe Morhange;Christophe Morhange;Joël Guiot

  • Late Holocene high resolution palaeoclimatic reconstruction inferred from Sebkha Mhabeul, southeast Tunisia

    L. Marquer;L. Marquer;S. Pomel;A. Abichou;E. Schulz

  • Man, vegetation and climate during the Holocene in the territory of Sagalassos, Western Taurus Mountains, SW Turkey

    Johan Bakker;Etienne Paulissen;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Véronique De Laet

  • The 4.2 ka BP event in the Levant

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Nick Marriner;Rachid Cheddadi;Joël Guiot

  • The Sea Peoples, from Cuneiform Tablets to Carbon Dating

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Elise Van Campo;Elise Van Campo;Karel Van Lerberghe;Tom Boiy

  • Solar pacing of storm surges, coastal flooding and agricultural losses in the Central Mediterranean

    David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Nick Marriner;Christophe Morhange;Christophe Morhange;Sanja Faivre

  • The medieval climate anomaly and the little Ice Age in coastal Syria inferred from pollen-derived palaeoclimatic patterns

    D. Kaniewski;D. Kaniewski;D. Kaniewski;E. Van Campo;E. Van Campo;E. Paulissen;H. Weiss

  • Long‐term effects of human impact on mountainous ecosystems, western Taurus Mountains, Turkey

    D. Kaniewski;V. De Laet;E. Paulissen;M. Waelkens

  • Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean

    Nick Marriner;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;David Kaniewski;Christophe Morhange;Clément Flaux

  • Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant:

    Alessio Palmisano;Jessie Woodbridge;C Neil Roberts;Andrew Bevan

  • Climate, people, fire and vegetation: new insights into vegetation dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean since the 1st century AD

    J. Bakker;E. Paulissen;D. Kaniewski;D. Kaniewski;J. Poblome

  • Ancient harbour infrastructure in the Levant: tracking the birth and rise of new forms of anthropogenic pressure

    Nick Marriner;Christophe Morhange;David Kaniewski;Nicolas Carayon

Frequent Co-Authors

Christophe Morhange
Christophe Morhange Aix-Marseille University
Nick Marriner
Nick Marriner University of Franche-Comté
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Rachid Cheddadi
Rachid Cheddadi University of Montpellier
Elena Marinova
Elena Marinova University of Tübingen
Jessie Woodbridge
Jessie Woodbridge Plymouth University
Matteo Vacchi
Matteo Vacchi University of Pisa
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Vincent Moron
Vincent Moron Columbia University

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