RÉSUMÉ
Source : INSU - Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
PaleoMeX (Paleo Mediterranean eXperiment) est consacré à l’étude du changement climatique de l’aire méditerranéenne au cours de l’holocène, soit depuis 10 000 ans environ. De façon générale, il s’agit d’appréhender les interactions entre climat, sociétés et civilisations du monde méditerranéen sur cette période.
PaleoMex intends to document trends and variability of the Mediterranean climate over the Holocene and their impact on human societies. The Mediterranean basin is lying within a transition zone between subtropical and temperate climates where important changes are predicted in the near future by IPCC scenarii. Owing to its climatological location, the small size of the basin, and the important development of ancient societies in its surroundings, the Mediterranean region is a pertinent study case to investigate the links between human societies and climate in the recent past. PaleoMex is an interdisciplinary project which combines the expertise of climatologists, paleoceanographers, biologists, archeologists, historians… and aims at documenting climate and ocean circulation variability at the highest possible temporal resolution from natural archives (proxy records) and historical documents. Continental archives will also be generated for producing an integrated data/model approach to describe the evolution of human societies in response to climate forcing (natural and anthropogenic), through their impact i.e. sea level change, land use... among other factors.