claim · claim_no_pan_mediterranean_drought_generalization
No single local drought or moisture proxy should be generalized to the entire eastern Mediterranean without testing spatial representativeness and proxy agreement.
No single local drought or moisture proxy should be generalized to the entire eastern Mediterranean without testing spatial representativeness and proxy agreement.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: preferred. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports
Severe Multi-Year Drought Coincident with Hittite Collapse around 1198–1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023)Supports the claim: No single local drought or moisture proxy should be generalized to the entire eastern Mediterranean without testing spatial representativeness and proxy agreement.
- supports · supports
Agricultural Strategies and Resilience at Tell Tweini during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages — Benjamin T. Fuller, Simone Riehl, Veerle Linseele, Elena Marinova, Bea De Cupere, Joachim Bretschneider, et al. (2024)Supports the claim: No single local drought or moisture proxy should be generalized to the entire eastern Mediterranean without testing spatial representativeness and proxy agreement.
- supports · supports
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)Supports the claim: No single local drought or moisture proxy should be generalized to the entire eastern Mediterranean without testing spatial representativeness and proxy agreement.
- supports · supports
Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean — A. Bernard Knapp, Sturt W. Manning (2016)Supports the claim: No single local drought or moisture proxy should be generalized to the entire eastern Mediterranean without testing spatial representativeness and proxy agreement.
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Referenced records
- The severe central Anatolian drought around 1198–1196 BCE plausibly contributed to the collapse of the Hittite central administration but is not established as a sufficient or s… · claim
- Tell Tweini’s plant and animal isotope record does not support severe sustained local agricultural water stress across the Late Bronze–Early Iron transition. · claim