Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon Chronology, Cultural Change, and the 8.2 ka Event

Plicht, Johannes van der; Akkermans, P.M.M.G.; Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier; Kaneda, Akihiro; Russell, Anna

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“…The role of climate change on human behavior, particularly in ancient societies, is a field of significant debate, in part, because of its relevance to current discussions of global climate change. In recent years, archaeologists have played an important role in gauging the relationship between large-scale climatic changes and the cultural history of hierarchical societies (Moore and Hillman, 1992;Gill, 2000;Glantz, 2001;Hassan, 2002;Mercuri et al, 2011;Rosen, 2007;van der Plicht et al, 2011). This research points to the need for more analyses of the specific dynamics of past environments as well as the manifold causes and tempos of the social dynamics of change.…”

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Mid-late Holocene climate, demography, and cultural dynamics in Iberia: A multi-proxy approach

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González

Drake

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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Despite increasing interest in the relationship between culture transformation and abrupt climate change, their complexities are poorly understood. The local impact of global environmental fluctuations depends on multiple factors, and their effects on societal collapse are often assumed rather than demonstrated. One of the major changes in west European later prehistory was the Copper to Bronze Age transition in the early second millennium BC, contemporaneous with the 4.2 ky cal. BP event. This article offers a multi-dimensional insight into this historical process in the Iberian Peninsula from a multi-proxy and comparative perspective. Three study areas, representative of diverse ecological settings and historical trajectories, are compared. Using radiocarbon dates, 13 C discrimination (Δ 13 C) values on C3 plants, and high-resolution palynological records as

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Mid-late Holocene climate, demography, and cultural dynamics in Iberia: A multi-proxy approach

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Drake

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“…Altogether, 145 14 C dates were analyzed by Bayesian statistics, establishing the best-dated chronology for a Late Neolithic site in the Near East thus far (van der Plicht et al 2011).…”

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Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Dating of Neolithic Cemeteries

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“…Interest in, scientific literature and projects, and meetings related to climate-human interactions have notably increased in recent years. Reconstruction of population distributions and/or analysis of occupation patterns and cultural changes in their environmental context have emerged as a major research interest (Aura et al, 2011;Banks et al, 2013;Bar-Yosef, 2015;Binford, 1999;González-Sampériz et al, 2009;Sánchez Goñi, 1966;Starkovich and Ntinou, 2015;Van der Plicht et al, 2011).…”

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The silence of the layers: Archaeological site visibility in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition at the Ebro Basin

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Domingo

Sebastián

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The Ebro Basin constitutes one of the most representative territories in SW Europe for the study of prehistoric societies during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. The correlation of palaeoenvironmental and geomorphological proxies obtained from sedimentary records with chronologically well-constrained reference archaeological sites has allowed defining this time frame precisely, such that three main pilot areas haven been broadly depicted: the Alavese region, the Pre-Pyrenees and the Bajo Aragón. Overall, the human imprint in the Ebro Basin was rare during the Upper Palaeolithic, but more visible from the Upper Magdalenian (14500 to 13500 cal BP) to Neolithic times (up to 5500 cal BP). Local environmental resources were continuously managed by the prehistoric communities in the different areas of study. In fact, the Ebro Basin acted during those millennia as a whole, developing the same cultural trends, industrial techniques and settlement patterns in parallel throughout the territory. However, some gaps exist in the 14 C frequency curve (SCDPD curve). This is partially related to prehistoric sites in particular lithologies and geological structures that could have partly been lost by erosional processes, especially during the Early Holocene. In addition, this gap also parallels the reconstructed climate trend for the Pre-Pyrenean and the Bajo Aragón areas, which are defined by high frequencies of xerophilous flora until ca. 9500 cal BP, suggesting that continental climate features could have hampered the presence of well-established human communities in inland regions. The interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geomorphology and palaeoclimatology) discussed in this paper offers clues to understand the existence of fills and gaps in the archaeological record of the Ebro Basin, and can be applied in other territories with similar geographic and climate patterns.

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Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon Chronology, Cultural Change, and the 8.2 ka Event

Cited by 38 publications

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Mid-late Holocene climate, demography, and cultural dynamics in Iberia: A multi-proxy approach

Mid-late Holocene climate, demography, and cultural dynamics in Iberia: A multi-proxy approach

Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Dating of Neolithic Cemeteries

The silence of the layers: Archaeological site visibility in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition at the Ebro Basin

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