Interactions between climate change and human activities during the early to mid-Holocene in the eastern Mediterranean basins
This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) records in the Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives (9.2 to 8.2 ka events) and on their impact on prehistoric societies. This lack of data handicaps the general interpretation of climate impacts on hum...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Climate of the Past |
| Online Access: | http://www.clim-past.net/12/1847/2016/cp-12-1847-2016.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) records in
the Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives
(9.2 to 8.2 ka events) and on their impact on prehistoric societies. This lack of data handicaps the general interpretation of climate impacts on human societies, which flourished in recent years. Key questions remain about the
impact of early Holocene cooling events on the Mediterranean climate,
ecosystems and human societies. In this paper, we discuss some examples from
river and lake systems from the eastern to central Mediterranean area
(central Anatolia, Cyprus, northeastern and northwestern Greece) that illustrate some
palaeohydrological and erosion variations that modified the sustainability of
the first Neolithic populations in this region. Results allow us to present
direct land–sea correlations and to reconstruct regional long-term trends as
well as millennial- to centennial-scale climatic changes. In this context, we
question the socio-economic and geographical adaptation capacities of these
societies (mobility, technology, economic practices, social organisation)
during the “early Holocene” interval (11.7 to 8.2 ka), which corresponds
partly to the Sapropel 1 deposition in the eastern Mediterranean sea. |
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| ISSN: | 1814-9324 1814-9332 |