claim · CLM-CLIMATE-REGIONALLY-IMPORTANT
Climate stress was regionally important and sometimes severe, but it was not one uniform Mediterranean event that independently caused every collapse.
Climate stress was regionally important and sometimes severe, but it was not one uniform Mediterranean event that independently caused every collapse.
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Supporting sources
- supports · supports central Anatolia case
Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023) - supports · supports agricultural effect
New crop stable isotope evidence reveals the impact of the 3.2 ka rapid climate event on arable agricultural production at late Bronze Age-Iron Age Hattusa, Central Anatolia — Charlotte Diffey, Reinder Neef, Andreas Schachner, Jürgen Seeher, Amy Bogaard (2026) - supports · provides Aegean counterexample
Late Bronze Age climate change and the destruction of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos — Martin Finné, Karin Holmgren, Chuan-Chou Shen, Hsun-Ming Hu, Meighan Boyd, Sharon Stocker (2017) - supports · supports force multiplier model for Europe
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition — Barry Molloy (2023)
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