Crisis in context: The end of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean

AB Knapp, SW Manning - American Journal of Archaeology, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern
Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within …

Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?

A Sharifi, A Pourmand, EA Canuel, E Ferer-Tyler… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a high-resolution (sub-decadal to centennial), multi-proxy reconstruction of
aeolian input and changes in palaeohydrological conditions based on a 13000 Yr record …

Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: a Discussion Paper by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice‐core, marine and terrestrial records) and …

MJC Walker, M Berkelhammer, S Björck… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This discussion paper, by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice‐core, marine and
terrestrial records) and the Subcommision on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the …

[图书][B] The climate of the Mediterranean region: From the past to the future

P Lionello - 2012 - books.google.com
The Mediterranean region contains a diverse and interesting climate ranging from areas
with permanent glaciers to areas of subtropical, semiarid regions. The region is potentially …

[图书][B] The rise and fall of classical Greece

J Ober - 2015 - degruyter.com
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt
than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era …

Environmental roots of the Late Bronze Age crisis

D Kaniewski, E Van Campo, J Guiot, S Le Burel, T Otto… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean,
Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and …

Climate and the Late Bronze collapse: new evidence from the southern Levant

D Langgut, I Finkelstein, T Litt - Tel Aviv, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to …

The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages

BL Drake - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2012 - Elsevier
Between the 13th and 11th centuries BCE, most Greek Bronze Age Palatial centers were
destroyed and/or abandoned. The following centuries were typified by low population levels …

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East

D Kaniewski, E Van Campo, T Boiy, JF Terral… - Biological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Our knowledge of the origins of olive tree domestication in the Middle East and on the
processes governing its extension and persistence in different vegetation types from …

The climate and environment of Byzantine Anatolia: Integrating science, history, and archaeology

J Haldon, N Roberts, A Izdebski, D Fleitmann… - Journal of …, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
The integration of high-resolution archaeological, textual, and environmental data with
longer-term, low-resolution data affords greater precision in identifying some of the causal …