causal hypothesis · HYP-HEKLA3-CAUSES-COLLAPSE
Hekla 3 initiated the Late Bronze Age collapse
Hekla 3 caused the drought that initiated the Hittite, Ugaritic, and wider collapse.
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Research assessment
statement
Hekla 3 caused the drought that initiated the Hittite, Ugaritic, and wider collapse.chronology test
failsResearch description
The eruption's calibrated date is 1087-1006 BCE, later than the c. 1198-1196 BCE central Anatolian drought and major early collapse events.
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Other source context
- informs · provides eruption date
Two Tephra Layers Bracketing Late Holocene Paleoecological Changes in Northern Germany — Christel van den Bogaard, Walter Dörfler, Rainer Glos, Marie-Josée Nadeau, Pieter M. Grootes, Helmut Erlenkeuser (2002) - informs · provides target drought date
Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023) - informs · provides alternative multi cycle climate mechanism
Holocene ocean-atmosphere coupling and Mediterranean sensitivity to Atlantic circulation: Lessons from the Late Bronze Age collapse — Katherine Power, Qiong Zhang (2026)