On the Nile Flood and Its Variation

Lyons, H. G.

doi:10.2307/1776313

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“…The major review of Nile flooding and its causes is by Lyons (1905), updated by Bell (1975) with an historical commentary particularly regarding the low flood levels that might have helped bring on the so-called Little Dark Age at the end of the Middle Kingdom sometime after ca. 1768 b.c.…”

Section: Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She does not claim that low water caused the concurrent political upheaval, but poor crops certainly did not help matters. W hat bothers me about the evidence from the Nile is the apparently deliberate falsification of the Nile records for revenue purposes (Lyons 1905), which certainly should cast doubt on their utility as a reliable source for climatic change unless supported by external evidence.…”

Section: Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Archaeological evidence and non-evidence for climatic change

Kuniholm

1990

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A

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‘Climate' is often used by historians to explain phenomena for which they cannot otherwise account. Accordingly, much of what has been written about climatic effects and climatic change must be read with extreme scepticism. Even though a disturbance may be obvious in the archaeological record, and it may be synchronous with a climatic event, a cause and effect relation should be demonstrated before one can say with any degree of confidence that the evidence is secure. Only when a number of separate lines of investigation agree on the same thing are we safe in positing true climatic ‘effect’ or ‘change’. This paper focuses on several instances in Mediterranean and Aegean archaeology where more or less satisfactory evidence for climatic change may be sought among a number of disciplines.

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Section: Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%