Moments of crisis: climate change in Scottish prehistory
There is strong evidence for many key turning points in Scottish and north-west European prehistory – what we call moments of ‘crisis’ – to be associated with evidence for widespread and abrupt natural changes in climate. Association or coincidence are not cause, though, and the abrupt climatic chan...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20594 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_142/142_0009_0025.pdf http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/20594/1/Tipping%20et%20al%20Moments%20of%20crisis%20PSAS%202012.pdf |
Summary: | There is strong evidence for many key turning points in Scottish and north-west European prehistory – what we call moments of ‘crisis’ – to be associated with evidence for widespread and abrupt natural changes in climate. Association or coincidence are not cause, though, and the abrupt climatic change in Scottish prehistory is proposed in a review of the many new data-sets of prehistoric climate change affecting the North Atlantic region. The case is made that Scotland in prehistory, because of its location in the North Atlantic region, should become a testing-ground of the relation between prehistoric society and climate change, to move debate beyond merely coincidence matching. |
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