Synchronizing a Late Glacial Abrupt Cooling Event with Paleoenvironmental and Population Changes: Case Study of the Moervaart Paleolake Area (NW Belgium)

Sum probability and Bayesian modeling of a substantial series of radiocarbon dates from a former extensive lake area in NW Belgium, known as the Moervaart area, allow important hydrological changes to be synchronized with Greenland Interstadial 1b (or Intra-Allerød Cold Period). It is postulated tha...

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Main Authors: Crombé, Philippe, Robinson, Erick, Van Strydonck, Mark
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Radiocarbon 2014
Subjects:
climate change
Allerod
Federmesser
cooling events
Greenland
Online Access:https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/17345
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Summary:Sum probability and Bayesian modeling of a substantial series of radiocarbon dates from a former extensive lake area in NW Belgium, known as the Moervaart area, allow important hydrological changes to be synchronized with Greenland Interstadial 1b (or Intra-Allerød Cold Period). It is postulated that the disappearance of nearly all open water systems (Moervaart lake, anastomosing gullies, and dune-slacks) in response to this short but abrupt cooling event was responsible for a nearly total retreat of hunter-gatherers already some centuries before the start of Greenland Stadial 1 (Younger Dryas).DOI:10.2458/56.17345

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