Late Holocene high resolution multi-proxy climate and environmental records from Lake Van, eastern Turkey

Multi-proxy parameters show that Lake Van experienced more arid conditions during the 3.5-1.6 Ka calBP than those during the last 1.6 ka BP. 16 periods of alternating cold/dry and warm/wet intervals with 100-350 years duration are observed over the last 3.5 ka. The Lake Van climate records are conformable with the Lake Nar and the Sofular speleothem records as well as the European historical climate periods including Roman Warm Period (RWP), Dark Age Cold Period (DACP), Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA), indicating teleconnections with the North Atlantic system. Human influence is reflected by high detrital influx in the last 700 years.