primary_scientific_research · SRC-DIFFEY-2026
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
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- Type
- journal_article_and_dataset
- Publication
- The Holocene, vol. 36, no. 3, 353
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Disintegration of the Hittite imperial system — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides agricultural context
- event Disintegration of the Hittite imperial systemEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides agricultural context
- causal hypothesis Central Anatolian drought as a Hittite tipping shockEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides agricultural effect and famine inference
- event Severe multi-year drought in central AnatoliaEvidence confidence: highinforms · supports agricultural impact · crop isotope conclusions
- date assertion Severe multi-year drought in central Anatolia — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · supports agricultural impact · crop isotope conclusions
- causal hypothesis Regionally staggered multi-causal cascadeEvidence confidence: very highinforms · supports food system mechanism
- claim Climate stress was regionally important and sometimes severe, but it was not one uniform Mediterranean event that independently caused every collapse.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports agricultural effect