Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse.
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Intro -- Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt -- Environmental Change and Human Adaptational Failure at the End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant -- Evidence for Mid-Holocene Environmental Change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria -- Environmental Fluctuations, Agricultural Production and Collapse: A View from Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamia -- The Scenario of Environmental Degradation in the Tell Leilan Region, Ne Syria, During the Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change -- Cultural Change in the Aegean c.2200BC -- The Third Millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric Evidence for Settlement Histories and Socio-cultural Change -- Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus -- Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt -- Holocene Climate Change and Man in the Present Day Sahara Desert -- Mid-Holocene Dry Spells in Bohemia, Central Europe -- Geomorphologic Arguments for Mid- to Late Holocene Environmental Change in Central Anatolian (Pluvial) Lake Basins -- The Late Holocene Environmental and Climate Shift in Russia and Surrounding Lands -- Environmental and Climatic Changes Between 3 and 5ka BP in Southeastern Ukraine. -- Mid- to Late Holocene Changes in Central Europe Climate and Man -- The Age and Causes of Mid-Late Holocene Environmental Change in Southwest Turkey -- Bronze Age Regression and Change of Sedimentation on The Aegean Coastal Plains of Anatolia (Turkey) -- Environmental Changes In Holocene Lacustrine Sequences From Karapmar In The Konya Plain (Turkey) -- Proxy Indications of Holocene Winter Rains in Southwest Asia Compared with Simulated Rainfall. Monsoon Regime Variations During the Late Holocene in the Southwestern India -- Third Millennium Climate in the Near East Based upon Pollen Evidence -- Middle and Late Holocene Vegetation and Climate Changes in Peninsular Italy -- Environmental Changes in Central Europe 5000-3000 BP -- Development of Sediments, Soils, Erosional Events, Molluscan and Vertebrate Assemblages in Connection with Human Impact in Central Europe During the Time Span 3,000 - 5,000 BP. -- High Resolution Simulations of Regional Holocene Climate: North Africa and the Near East -- Background to Mid-Holocene Climatic Change in Anatolia and Adjacent Regions -- Middle to Late Holocene Changes in Tropical Africa and Other Continents: Paleomonsoon and Sea Surface Temperature Variations. -- Late Holocene Vegetational Changes in South-West Cameroon -- δ18O and Trace Element Measurements as Proxy for the Reconstruction of Climate Changes at Lake Van (Turkey): Preliminary Results - -- Climate Change at the End of the Third Millennium BC - Evidence from Varved Lacustrine Sediments -- Environmental Vulnerability of Early Societies: Some Reflections on Modeling Issues -- Was the Holocene Climate Uniquely Benign or Is the Eemian Catching Cold from the Reinforcement Syndrome Virus? -- Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change and Social Collapse in West Asia and Egypt -- Subject Index.
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Third Millennium BC Abrupt Climate Change and Old World Social Collapse, held at Kemer, Turkey, September 19-24, 1994.