Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers

Roffet‐Salque, Mélanie; Marciniak, Arkadiusz; Valdes, Paul J.; Pawłowska, Kamilla; Pyzel, Joanna; Czerniak, Lech; Krüger, Marta; Roberts, C. Neil; Pitter, Sharmini; Evershed, Richard P.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1803607115

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“…This cooling occurs at~8.2 ka in the NGRIP1 core (where it marks the GSSP) and corresponds to the "8.2-ka climatic event," a short-lived near-global episode that is reflected in a wide range of proxy climate records (e.g. Allan et al, 2018;Chase et al, 2015a;Cheng et al, 2009;Daley et al, 2011;Morrill et al, 2013;Oster et al, 2017;Roffet-Salque et al, 2018;Rohling and Pälike, 2005;Siani et al, 2013;Sicre et al, 2013). In the Greenland NGRIP1 ice core, the event is located at a depth of 1228.67 m (Fig.…”

Section: Northgrippian Stage/age; Middle Holocene Subseries/subepochmentioning

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Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

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Lowe

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J Quaternary Science

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The Holocene, which currently spans ~11 700 years, is the shortest series/epoch within the geological time scale (GTS), yet it contains a rich archive of evidence in stratigraphical contexts that are frequently continuous and often preserved at high levels of resolution. On 14 June 2018, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences formally ratified a proposal to subdivide the Holocene into three stages/ages, along with their equivalent subseries/subepochs, each anchored by a Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP). The new stages are the Greenlandian (Lower/Early Holocene Subseries/Subepoch) with its GSSP in the Greenland NGRIP2 ice core and dated at 11 700 a b2k (before 2000 CE); the Northgrippian (Middle Holocene Subseries/Subepoch) with its GSSP in the Greenland NGRIP1 ice core and dated at 8236 a b2k; and the Meghalayan (Upper/Late Holocene Subseries/Subepoch) with its GSSP in a speleothem from Mawmluh Cave, north‐eastern India, with a date of 4250 a b2k. We explain the nomenclature of the new divisions, describe the procedures involved in the ratification process, designate auxiliary stratotypes to support the GSSPs and consider the implications of the subdivision for defining the Anthropocene as a new unit within the GTS.

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Section: Northgrippian Stage/age; Middle Holocene Subseries/subepochmentioning

confidence: 99%

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

Walker

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Lowe

et al. 2019

J Quaternary Science

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“…It is hard to justify a link to the purported social collapse. Our interpretation of the site's paleoenvironment (4) suggests that there were no significant changes at this time, and there is now evidence for an overlap in settlement between the East and West Mounds at Çatalhöyük (5), which conflicts with the interpretation of a collapse (1).…”

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“…In PNAS, Roffet-Salque et al (1) present an innovative paleoclimatic reconstruction using biomarkers to suggest that δ 2 H measurements on animal fat residues from pottery vary through time at the important Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. The interpretation of these changes in relation to a teleconnection with the 8.2-kyBP climate event is problematic.…”

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Teleconnections and environmental determinism: Was there really a climate-driven collapse at Late Neolithic Çatalhöyük?

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Ayala

2019

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…However, there is much evidence for continuity in settlement over the centuries around 8.2 ka on the Anatolia plateau (Baird, 2012b) and Neolithic communities are present in western Turkey several centuries before the 8.2 ka event. Recent evaluation of archaeological evidence suggests that the 8.2 ka event had no systematic regional scale impact on societies (Flohr, Fleitmann, Matthews, Matthews, & Black, 2016;Maher et al, 2011), although local impacts can be detected (Roffet-Salque et al, 2018).…”

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20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

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The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 years. The complex social, economic, and environmental landscapes in the region today are not new phenomena and understanding their interactions requires a nuanced, multidisciplinary understanding of the past. This review builds on a history of collaboration between the social and natural palaeoscience disciplines. We provide a multidisciplinary, multiscalar perspective on the relevance of past climate, environmental, and archaeological research in assessing present day vulnerabilities and risks for the populations of southwest Asia. We discuss the complexity of palaeoclimatic data interpretation, particularly in relation to hydrology, and provide an overview of key time periods of palaeoclimatic interest. We discuss the critical role that vegetation plays in the human–climate–environment nexus and discuss the implications of the available palaeoclimate and archaeological data, and their interpretation, for palaeonarratives of the region, both climatically and socially. We also provide an overview of how modelling can improve our understanding of past climate impacts and associated change in risk to societies. We conclude by looking to future work, and identify themes of “scale” and “seasonality” as still requiring further focus. We suggest that by appreciating a given locale's place in the regional hydroscape, be it an archaeological site or palaeoenvironmental archive, more robust links to climate can be made where appropriate and interpretations drawn will demand the resolution of factors acting across multiple scales. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented Science of Water > Water and Environmental Change Water and Life > Nature of Freshwater Ecosystems

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Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers

Cited by 72 publications

References 34 publications

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

Teleconnections and environmental determinism: Was there really a climate-driven collapse at Late Neolithic Çatalhöyük?

20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia

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