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Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change and Social Collapse in West Asia and Egypt

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Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse

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The palaeoenvironmental record for the 2200 BC abrupt climate change is synthesized. Alternative explanations for synchronous and extended Old World social collapse are examined and rejected. Quantification of the abrupt climate change is necessary if we are to understand its social consequences.

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  1. Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, 80626, Ayazağa, Istanbul, Turkey

    H. Nüzhet Dalfes

  2. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 10964, Palisades, New York, USA

    George Kukla

  3. Departments of Anthropology and New Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, 06520, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Harvey Weiss

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Weiss, H. (1997). Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change and Social Collapse in West Asia and Egypt. In: Dalfes, H.N., Kukla, G., Weiss, H. (eds) Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse. NATO ASI Series, vol 49. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60616-8_33

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