A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. The study also resolves a long-standing debate over the...
Dr. Beresford-Jones of the University of Cambridge, who studies paleoecology in Peru, believes that the environmental response to the deforestation of huarango played as important a role in the collapse of the ancient Nazca as did the eventual El Nino flood (Bourton, 2009). Do our societies ...
The First Global Revolution, 1973 edition Contents 1Official narrative 1.1Selected peak records 1.1.1Extreme weather events 1.1.2Melting polar ice caps (omittung the inverse trend at the other pole) 1.1.2.120 Year IMBIE Study 1.1.2.225 Year IMBIE Study ...
In Egypt, the mid- to late Holocene climatic transition also occurred at around 4,500 calendar yr BP, several hundred years earlier than the collapse of Egyptian civilization at around 4,000 yr BP28. A similar observation has been made in the case of the Middle East10,11. The length of...
Hodell et al.,1995, 393 (Fig. 3); Curtis et al.,1996, 41, 44–46; Hodell et al.,2001, 1368 (Fig. 2),2005, 1421, 1424 (Figs. 10, 15). These studies focus on the more severe and prolonged droughts corresponding to the classical “collapse,” not the hiatus, though the latter...
Previously it was thought that the Thai invasion was the main cause of the collapse. However, my impression is, there were three very broad causes that occurred during the same period and which would have had related influences. For example, during the time of the rapid change in climate th...
Here we use a state-of-the-art multi-ice-core reconstruction of explosive volcanism, representing the dominant global external driver of severe short-term climatic change, to reveal a systematic association between eruptions and dynastic collapse across two millennia of Chinese history. We next ...
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The Mamluk state was established during the thirteenth century in Egypt and the Levant by imported slave-soldiers, who maintained and expanded existing agricultural patterns of intensive land use and irrigation. The Jordan Valley is a region of great importance with respect to water resources and agr...
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