primary_scientific_research · SRC-FINNE-2017
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
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- journal_article_and_proxy_record
- Publication
- PLOS ONE, vol. 12, no. 12
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- entity Palace of Nestor at Pylosinforms · provides local climate record
- event Final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at PylosEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides local hydroclimate context · abstract and conclusions
- date assertion Final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides local hydroclimate context · abstract and conclusions
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides local hydroclimate context · abstract and conclusions
- causal hypothesis A single regional drought directly destroyed the Mycenaean palacesUnsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: lowConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed storyinforms · provides Pylos climate counterexample
- 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 · provides Aegean counterexample