The First Intermediate Period: A time of Famine and Climate Change?

Moeller, Nadine

doi:10.1553/aeundl15s153

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“…However, it has to be stressed that the contemporaneity of these collapses and their extent and nature are highly debated (Moeller 2005;Pfälzner 2012;Ur 2012) and that the general and local outline of climate geography in these areas, as well as the archaeobotanical and stable isotope evidence from cereal grains, support a high interregional variability in climate effects (Riehl and Bryson 2007;Riehl 2012).…”

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Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period

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Absolute dates for the end of the Early Bronze Age ancient Near East are of crucial importance for assessing the nature and extent of mid-to late 3rd millennium BC transitions in the Near East and their alleged link to the 4.2ka BP climatic event. This article presents a radiocarbon sequence for the Early Bronze Age site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and argues that the end of the Early Bronze III period has to be dated considerably higher than previously estimated. There is no reason to assume that the 4.2ka BP event might have contributed to or even triggered the collapse of the first urban cities in the southern and central Levant.

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Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period

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“…Unfortunately, within a matter of weeks the technician had accepted a position elsewhere (Nash 1999:203) to pursue work, like so many others, in the Southwest. Since him, numerous other scholars have called for the construction of a tree-ring chronology for Egypt or the proxy records it provides, including James H. Breasted (1933), Emil Haury (1935), Ambrose Lansing (1938), Ludlow Bull (1942), Bryant Bannister (1970Bannister ( , 1985, Jeffrey S. Dean (1978), Colin Renfrew (1996), Peter Ian Kuniholm (1992Kuniholm ( , 2002, Ian Shaw (2000a), Otto Cichocki (2000Cichocki ( , 2006, Nadine Moeller (2005), Kenneth A. Since him, numerous other scholars have called for the construction of a tree-ring chronology for Egypt or the proxy records it provides, including James H. Breasted (1933), Emil Haury (1935), Ambrose Lansing (1938), Ludlow Bull (1942), Bryant Bannister (1970Bannister ( , 1985, Jeffrey S. Dean (1978), Colin Renfrew (1996), Peter Ian Kuniholm (1992Kuniholm ( , 2002, Ian Shaw (2000a), Otto Cichocki (2000Cichocki ( , 2006, Nadine Moeller (2005), Kenneth A.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…theories of dynastic collapse; Bell 1971Bell , 1975Moeller 2005;Hassan 2007; Butzer 2012)-will require analysis of specimens that grew in Egypt and thus reflect the local conditions, rather than those of distant lands (e.g. Even the most fundamental question remains unanswered for native Egyptian species: can dendrochronology be applied to them with success?…”

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Tree Rings and the Chronology of Ancient Egypt

Creasman

2014

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A fundamental aspect of ancient Egyptian history remains unresolved: chronology. Egyptologists (and researchers in related fields that synchronize their studies with Egypt) currently rely on a variety of insufficiently precise methodologies (king lists, radiocarbon dating, etc.) from which to derive seemingly "absolute" dates. The need for genuine precision has been recognized for a century, as has the potential solution: dendrochronology. This manuscript presents a case for further progress toward the construction of a tree-ring chronology for ancient Egypt.

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“…It seems that Douglass' direct efforts tapered out soon after, ending with the onset of World War II (Creasman et al 2012). Since him, numerous other scholars have called for the construction of a tree-ring chronology for Egypt or the proxy records it provides, including James H. Breasted (1933), Emil Haury (1935, Ambrose Lansing (1938), Ludlow Bull (1942), Bryant Bannister (1970, 1985, Jeffrey S. Dean (1978), Colin Renfrew (1996), Peter Ian Kuniholm (1992Kuniholm ( , 2002, Ian Shaw (2000a), Otto Cichocki (2000Cichocki ( , 2006, Nadine Moeller (2005), Kenneth A. Kitchen (2006), Malcolm H. Wiener (2006), and others.…”

Section: A Brief History Of Dendrochronology and Ancient Egyptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using dendrochronology to its fullest potential-for example, to evaluate and reconstruct environmental events and their impacts (i.e. theories of dynastic collapse; Bell 1971Bell , 1975Moeller 2005;Hassan 2007;Butzer 2012)-will require analysis of specimens that grew in Egypt and thus reflect the local conditions, rather than those of distant lands (e.g. cedars of Lebanon).…”

Section: Is Dendrochronology Possible For and In Egypt?mentioning

confidence: 99%