property assignment · pa_central_anatolia_drought
pa_central_anatolia_drought
Tree-ring width and carbon-isotope evidence identifies an unusually severe multi-year drought around 1198–1196 BCE.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: accepted. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Research description
Tree-ring width and carbon-isotope evidence identifies an unusually severe multi-year drought around 1198–1196 BCE.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports assignment
Severe Multi-Year Drought Coincident with Hittite Collapse around 1198–1196 BC — Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, Jed P. Sparks (2023)Tree-ring width and carbon-isotope evidence identifies an unusually severe multi-year drought around 1198–1196 BCE.
Referenced records
- Drought Event · property
- Severe Multi-Year Drought in Central Anatolia · event
- An annually resolved proxy identifies an unusually severe, continuous three-year drought near the Hittite core. · claim
- 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