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...
Published in: | Radiocarbon |
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Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2014
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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 |
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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