Climate Forcing Due to the 8200 Cal yr BP Event Observed at Early Neolithic Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Weninger, Bernhard, Alram-Stern, Eva, Bauer, Eva, Clare, Lee, Danzeglocke, Uwe, Jöris, Olaf, Kubatzki, Claudia, Rollefson, Gary, Todorova, Henrieta, van Andel, Tjeerd
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2006
• Subjects: Thrace; North Atlantic; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2006.06.009; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589406000949?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589406000949?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400004580

Abstract We explore the hypothesis that the abrupt drainage of Laurentide lakes and associated rapid switch of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation 8200 yr ago had a catastrophic influence on Neolithic civilisation in large parts of southeastern Europe, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Near East. Th...