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Soil Erosion and Valley Fills in the Yemen Highlands and Southern Turkey: Integrating Settlement, Geoarchaeology, and Climate Change
Tony J. Wilkinson · 2005
Citation metadata
- Type
- journal article and geoarchaeological synthesis
- Publication
- Geoarchaeology
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
Records informed by this source
- causal hypothesis Climate, land use and water management interacted without one deterministic regional collapse mechanismEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · proposes interpretation · Integrated land-use and climate model
Provides a multi-causal framework.
- claim Climate and monsoon variability should not be treated as a single deterministic cause of settlement, irrigation or political change across Southern Arabia and the Horn.Evidence confidence: highinforms · proposes interpretation · Integrated settlement, erosion and climate discussion
Provides a multi-causal landscape model.
- claim Erosion, deflation, development and site destruction have removed or obscured parts of the settlement record, especially in coasts and arid interiors.Evidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · Valley fills and erosion discussion
Documents landscape processes affecting visibility.