Marion Genet¹, Anne-Laure Daniau¹, Florent Mouillot², Vincent Hanquiez¹, Schmidt Sabine¹, Valérie David¹, Fatima F G Abrantes^3,4, Pierre Anschutz¹, Franck C Bassinot⁵, Jérome Bonnin¹, Bernard Dennielou⁶, Frédérique Eynaud¹, David A Hodell⁷, Thierry Mulder¹, Filipa Naughton^8,9, Polychronis C Tzedakis¹⁰ and Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goni¹, (1)Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, EPOC, EPHE, UMR 5805, F-33600 Pessac, France, Pessac, France, (2)CNRS, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Avenida de Brasília 6, Lisboa, 1449-006, Portugal, Lisboa, 1449-006, Portugal, Portugal, (4)CCMAR, Centro de Ciências do Mar, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, 8005-139, Portugal, Faro, 8005-139, Portugal, Portugal, (5)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR 8212 CEA-CNRS-UVSQ (LSCE), Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91198, France, France, (6)Ifremer, Laboratoire Géodynamique et enregistrement Sédimentaire, Centre Bretagne - 29280 Plouzané, France, Plouzané, France, France, (7)University of Cambridge, Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (8)Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA), Rua Alfredo Magalhães Ramalho 6, 1495-006 Lisboa, Portugal, Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal, (9)Center of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Algarve University, Campus de Gambelas 8005 - 139 Faro, Portugal, Faro, Portugal, Portugal, (10)Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Kevin T Uno, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, NY, United States, Sarah Hlubik, George Washington University, Anthropology Department, District of Columbia, DC, United States, W. Andrew Barr, George Washington University, Department of Anthroplogy, Washington, DC, United States, Benjamin Andrew Davies, University of Utah, Anthropology Department, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Rahab Kinyanjui, National Museums of Kenya, Earth Sciences Department, Nairobu, Kenya, Chad L Yost, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Francesco Berna, Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Frances Forrest, American Museum of Natural History, Sackler Educational Laboratory for Comparative Genomics and Human Origins, New York, NY, United States, Russel B Cutts, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology, Athens, United States, Dan Palcu, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands and David R Braun, George Washington University, Anthropology Department, Washington, DC, United States

Elisabeth Dietze¹, Andrei Andreev¹, Bernhard Chapligin¹, Clarisse Kraamwinkel¹, Kai Mangelsdorf², Martin Melles³, Hanno Meyer¹, Tabea Tessendorf¹, Volker Wennrich³ and Ulrike Herzschuh^4,5, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Cologne, Germany, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Potsdam, Germany, (5)University of Potsdam, Institute for Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany

Katherine C Glover, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States

Fallon Born¹, Stephanie Arcusa², Nicholas McKay³ and R Scott Anderson², (1)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

Sarah L Shafer, US Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR, United States and Patrick J Bartlein, University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States

Terri Lacourse, University of Victoria, Dept. of Biology, Victoria, BC, Canada

Guobao Xu^1,2, Christopher H Guiterman¹, Tom Swetnam¹, Valerie Trouet¹, Kevin J Anchukaitis³ and Christopher H Baisan¹, (1)University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development and Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States

Mark Constantine IV, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Eve Slavich, University of New South Wales, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Scott Money, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Melissa L Chipman, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmnetal Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States, Philip Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, Mark J Lara, University of Illinois, Plant Biology, Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States and Feng Sheng Hu, Washington University in St. Louis, Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States

Aritina Haliuc, University of Bordeaux, CNRS, EPOC, EPHE, UMR 5805, F-33600 Pessac, France, Pessac, France, Anne-Laure Daniau, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, EPOC, EPHE, UMR 5805, F-33600 Pessac, France, Pessac, France and BRAISE Team Members*