Dust storms or landslides? Investigating drivers of settlement, abandonment and landscape change at a Bronze Age farming site in Kyrgyzstan

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Quaternary International, vol. 730-731, 109803

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• causal hypothesis Local geomorphic disturbance, rather than regional societal collapse, caused at least one depositional break at Chap.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · proposes interpretation · Competing site-formation mechanisms

  Provides the direct causal alternatives.

• claim A sedimentary break at Chap does not establish regional climatic collapse or valley-wide abandonment.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · critiques interpretation · Competing depositional explanations

  Provides the site-formation test.