causal hypothesis · HYP-UNIVERSAL-AEGEAN-DROUGHT
A single regional drought directly destroyed the Mycenaean palaces
The same prolonged drought directly caused all major Mycenaean palace destructions around 1200 BCE.
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Research assessment
statement
The same prolonged drought directly caused all major Mycenaean palace destructions around 1200 BCE.Research description
Palace destructions were not simultaneous, Pylos was generally wet at its final destruction, and internal elite and military changes have stronger local explanatory value.
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Other source context
- informs · supports staggered destructions and internal factors
Getting closer to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024) - informs · provides Pylos climate 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)