The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean
In this paper we explore the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene. Our focus is on the social implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have recently been identified as key time-windows for...
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ftsouthampton:oai:eprints.soton.ac.uk:73088 2023-07-30T04:03:50+02:00 The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean Weninger, Bernhard Clare, Lee Rohling, Eelco Bar-Yosef, Ofer Boehner, Utz Budja, Mihael Bundschuh, Manfred Feurdean, Angelica Gebe, Hans Georg Joeris, Olaf Lindstaedter, Jörg Mayewski, Paul Muehlenbruch, Tobias Reingruber, Agathe Rollefson, Gary Schyle, Daniel Thissen, Laurens Todorova, Henrieta Zielhofer, Christoph 2009 https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/73088/ unknown Weninger, Bernhard, Clare, Lee, Rohling, Eelco, Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Boehner, Utz, Budja, Mihael, Bundschuh, Manfred, Feurdean, Angelica, Gebe, Hans Georg, Joeris, Olaf, Lindstaedter, Jörg, Mayewski, Paul, Muehlenbruch, Tobias, Reingruber, Agathe, Rollefson, Gary, Schyle, Daniel, Thissen, Laurens, Todorova, Henrieta and Zielhofer, Christoph (2009) The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean. Documenta Praehistorica, 36, 7-59. (doi:10.4312/dp.36.2 <http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.36.2>). Article PeerReviewed 2009 ftsouthampton https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.36.2 2023-07-09T21:08:59Z In this paper we explore the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene. Our focus is on the social implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have recently been identified as key time-windows for global RCC (Mayewski et al. 2004). These cooling anomalies are well-dated, with Greenland ice-core resolution, due to synchronicity between warm/cold foraminifera ratios in Mediterranean core LC21 as a proxy for surface water temperature, and Greenland GISP2 non sea-salt (nss) [K+] ions as a proxy for the intensification of the Siberian High and for polar air outbreaks in the northeast Mediterranean (Rohling et al. 2002). Building on these synchronisms, the GISP2 age- model supplies the following precise time-intervals for archaeological RCC research: (i) 8.6–8.0 ka, (ii) 6.0–5.2 ka, (iii) 4.2–4.0 ka and (iv) 3.1–2.9 ka calBP. For each of these RCC time intervals, based on detailed 14C-based chronological studies, we investigate contemporaneous cultural developments. From our studies it follows that RCC-related climatic deterioration is a major factor underlying social change, although always at work within a wide spectrum of social, cultural, economic and religious factors. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Greenland ice core ice core University of Southampton: e-Prints Soton Greenland Documenta Praehistorica 36 7 59 |
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In this paper we explore the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene. Our focus is on the social implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have recently been identified as key time-windows for global RCC (Mayewski et al. 2004). These cooling anomalies are well-dated, with Greenland ice-core resolution, due to synchronicity between warm/cold foraminifera ratios in Mediterranean core LC21 as a proxy for surface water temperature, and Greenland GISP2 non sea-salt (nss) [K+] ions as a proxy for the intensification of the Siberian High and for polar air outbreaks in the northeast Mediterranean (Rohling et al. 2002). Building on these synchronisms, the GISP2 age- model supplies the following precise time-intervals for archaeological RCC research: (i) 8.6–8.0 ka, (ii) 6.0–5.2 ka, (iii) 4.2–4.0 ka and (iv) 3.1–2.9 ka calBP. For each of these RCC time intervals, based on detailed 14C-based chronological studies, we investigate contemporaneous cultural developments. From our studies it follows that RCC-related climatic deterioration is a major factor underlying social change, although always at work within a wide spectrum of social, cultural, economic and religious factors. |
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Weninger, Bernhard Clare, Lee Rohling, Eelco Bar-Yosef, Ofer Boehner, Utz Budja, Mihael Bundschuh, Manfred Feurdean, Angelica Gebe, Hans Georg Joeris, Olaf Lindstaedter, Jörg Mayewski, Paul Muehlenbruch, Tobias Reingruber, Agathe Rollefson, Gary Schyle, Daniel Thissen, Laurens Todorova, Henrieta Zielhofer, Christoph |
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Weninger, Bernhard Clare, Lee Rohling, Eelco Bar-Yosef, Ofer Boehner, Utz Budja, Mihael Bundschuh, Manfred Feurdean, Angelica Gebe, Hans Georg Joeris, Olaf Lindstaedter, Jörg Mayewski, Paul Muehlenbruch, Tobias Reingruber, Agathe Rollefson, Gary Schyle, Daniel Thissen, Laurens Todorova, Henrieta Zielhofer, Christoph The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean |
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Weninger, Bernhard Clare, Lee Rohling, Eelco Bar-Yosef, Ofer Boehner, Utz Budja, Mihael Bundschuh, Manfred Feurdean, Angelica Gebe, Hans Georg Joeris, Olaf Lindstaedter, Jörg Mayewski, Paul Muehlenbruch, Tobias Reingruber, Agathe Rollefson, Gary Schyle, Daniel Thissen, Laurens Todorova, Henrieta Zielhofer, Christoph |
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The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean |
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The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean |
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The impact of rapid climate change on prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean |
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