Historical Models and Serial Sources

Historical sources and watershed evolution.

Historical data, including structures, documents, photographs and eyewitness reports, allow changes in some drainage basins to be documented in fine detail over time periods ranging from a few days to several decades. The USA is rich in data sources that are freely available. Rates of bank erosion, meander migration, channel width, riparian vegetation and watershed land use and cover conditions...

Historical Socionatural Systems and Models

How should archaeologists and other social scientists tackle the big and little questions of change in socionatural systems? Most nonpractitioners think that the answer is obvious—fieldwork! That is certainly the place to start, and we know very few archaeologists who were not first drawn to their profession because of a love of fieldwork and discovery. Still, it does not take long before we re...

Models, Testing, and Correction of Serial Correlation

Science and society in modern Japan. Selected historical sources

Historical Mediterranean droughts: data and models

Historical droughts in Mediterranean regions during the last 500 years: a data/model approach S. Brewer, S. Alleaume, J. Guiot, and A. Nicault CEREGE, CNRS/Université Paul Cézanne UMR 6635, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex, France Centre d’Etudes Nordiques, Université Laval, Ste Foy, Québec GlK7P4, Canada Received: 31 March 2006 – Accepted: 4 September 2006 – Published: 12 September 2006 Corr...