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In:
Supplement to: Lemmen, Carsten; Wirtz, Kai W (2014): On the sensitivity of the simulated European Neolithic transition to climate extremes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 51, 65-72, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.023
Publication Date:
2023-10-28
Description:
Was the spread of agropastoralism from the Fertile Crescent throughout Europe influenced by rapid climatic shifts? We here generate idealized climate events using palaeoclimate records. In a mathematical model of regional sociocultural development, these events disturb the subsistence base of simulated forager and farmer societies. We evaluate the regional simulated transition timings and durations against a published large set of radiocarbon dates for western Eurasia; the model is able to realistically hindcast much of the inhomogeneous space-time evolution of regional Neolithic transitions. Our study shows that the inclusion of climate events improves the simulation of typical lags between cultural complexes, but that the overall difference to a model without climate events is not significant. Climate events may not have been as important for early sociocultural dynamics as endogenous factors.
Keywords:
GLUES_LBK; Integrierte Analyse zwischeneiszeitlicher Klimadynamik; INTERDYNAMIK; Model; Model version 1.1.18; western Eurasia
Type:
Dataset
Format:
application/x-gzip, 681.8 kBytes
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