Sychronizing 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-Allerod Cold Period). It is postulated tha...

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Published in:Radiocarbon
Main Authors: Crombé, Philippe, Robinson, Erick, Van Strydonck, Mark
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
History and Archaeology
CENTRAL RHINELAND
PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE TRANSITION
RADIOCARBON
NETHERLANDS
CALIBRATION
RECORDS
STRATIGRAPHY
ERUPTION
ALLEROD
GERMANY
Greenland
Online Access:https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4343588
http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4343588
https://doi.org/10.2458/56.17345
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/4343588/file/4343597
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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-Allerod 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).

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