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Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. H. Nüzhet Dalfes

    1. Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazağa, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. George Kukla

    1. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, USA

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  3. Harvey Weiss

    1. Departments of Anthropology and New Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, New Haven, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 49)

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Table of contents (33 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt

    • Fekri A. Hassan
    Pages 1-23

  3. Environmental Change and Human Adaptational Failure at the End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant

    • Arlene M. Rosen
    Pages 25-38

  4. Evidence for Mid-Holocene Environmental Change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria

    • Frank Hole
    Pages 39-66

  5. Environmental Fluctuations, Agricultural Production and Collapse: A View from Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamia

    • Tony J. Wilkinson
    Pages 67-106

  6. The Scenario of Environmental Degradation in the Tell Leilan Region, Ne Syria, During the Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change

    • Marie-Agnès Courty, Harvey Weiss
    Pages 107-147

  7. Cultural Change in the Aegean c.2200BC

    • Sturt W. Manning
    Pages 149-171

  8. The Third Millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric Evidence for Settlement Histories and Socio-cultural Change

    • Katina T. Lillios
    Pages 173-191

  9. Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus

    • Gregory L. Possehl
    Pages 193-243

  10. Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt

    • Karl W. Butzer
    Pages 245-296

  11. Holocene Climate Change and Man in the Present Day Sahara Desert

    • Nicole Petite-Maire, L. Beufort, N. Page
    Pages 297-308

  12. Mid-Holocene Dry Spells in Bohemia, Central Europe

    • Vaclav Cilek
    Pages 309-320

  13. Geomorphologic Arguments for Mid- to Late Holocene Environmental Change in Central Anatolian (Pluvial) Lake Basins

    • Oğuz Erol
    Pages 321-350

  14. The Late Holocene Environmental and Climate Shift in Russia and Surrounding Lands

    • Constantin V. Krementski
    Pages 351-370

  15. Environmental and Climatic Changes Between 3 and 5ka BP in Southeastern Ukraine

    • Natalia P. Gerasimenko
    Pages 371-399

  16. Mid- to Late Holocene Changes in Central Europe Climate and Man

    • Klaus D. Jäger
    Pages 401-408

  17. The Age and Causes of Mid-Late Holocene Environmental Change in Southwest Turkey

    • Neil Roberts, Warren J. Eastwood, Henry F. Lamb, John C. Tibby
    Pages 409-429

  18. Bronze Age Regression and Change of Sedimentation on the Aegean Coastal Plains of Anatolia (Turkey)

    • İlhan Kayan
    Pages 431-450

  19. Environmental Changes in Holocene Lacustrine Sequences from Karapinar in the Konya Plain (Turkey)

    • C. Kuzucuoğlu, M. Karabiyikoğlu, M. Fontugne, J-F. Pastre, T. Ercan
    Pages 451-463

  20. Proxy Indications of Holocene Winter Rains in Southwest Asia Compared with Simulated Rainfall

    • Reid A. Bryson
    Pages 465-473
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About this book

Around 4000 years ago the advanced urban civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and India suddenly collapsed. What happened? Did a prolonged drought cause the breakdown of social order? Recent discoveries from all over the world strongly support the suspected link of the collapse with climate. The volume presents the findings of more than 40 researchers and provides a review on the relevant information. It appears that a major shift of the precipitation pattern affected many parts of the world at approximately the same time, with disastrous effects on the nomadic populations of Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Can a similar climate shift with a serious adverse impact on society happen again? In a world facing global warming, there could be many lessons to be learned from the experiences of ancient societies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazağa, Istanbul, Turkey

    H. Nüzhet Dalfes

  • Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, USA

    George Kukla

  • Departments of Anthropology and New Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Harvey Weiss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse

  • Editors: H. Nüzhet Dalfes, George Kukla, Harvey Weiss

  • Series Title: Nato ASI Subseries I:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60616-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64476-4Published: 16 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60616-8Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7125

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 728

  • Topics: Anthropology, Atmospheric Sciences, Geology

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