Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the 'long' 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 96-121

  Clarke, Joanne ^a   Brooks, Nick ^a   Banning, Edward B ^b   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^c   Campbell, Stuart ^d   Clare, Lee ^e   Cremaschi, Mauro ^f   di Lernia, Savino ^g   Drake, Nick ^h   Gallinaro, Marina ⁱ   Manning, Sturt ^j   Nicoll, Kathleen ^k   Philip, Graham ^l   Rosen, Steve ^m   Schoop, Ulf Dietrich ⁿ   Tafuri, Mary Anne ^g   Weninger, Bernhard ^o   Zerboni, Andrea ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

ⁱ KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^l DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^m BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean; Middle Holocene; Near East; North Africa; Rapid climate change; Societal change

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXCAVATION;

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HOLOCENES; NEAR EAST; NORTH AFRICA; RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE; SOCIETAL CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ARIDITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMIDITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SOCIAL CHANGE;

ANATOLIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MESOPOTAMIA; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; SAHARA; TURKEY;

EID: 84959107202     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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