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Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers
The 8.2-thousand years B.P. event is evident in multiple proxy records across the globe, showing generally dry and cold conditions for ca. 160 years. Environmental changes around the event are mainly detected using geochemical or palynological analyses of ice cores, lacustrine, marine, and other sed...
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National Academy of Sciences
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6126735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30104367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803607115 |
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author | Roffet-Salque, Mélanie Marciniak, Arkadiusz Valdes, Paul J. Pawłowska, Kamilla Pyzel, Joanna Czerniak, Lech Krüger, Marta Roberts, C. Neil Pitter, Sharmini Evershed, Richard P. |
author_facet | Roffet-Salque, Mélanie Marciniak, Arkadiusz Valdes, Paul J. Pawłowska, Kamilla Pyzel, Joanna Czerniak, Lech Krüger, Marta Roberts, C. Neil Pitter, Sharmini Evershed, Richard P. |
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description | The 8.2-thousand years B.P. event is evident in multiple proxy records across the globe, showing generally dry and cold conditions for ca. 160 years. Environmental changes around the event are mainly detected using geochemical or palynological analyses of ice cores, lacustrine, marine, and other sediments often distant from human settlements. The Late Neolithic excavated area of the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük East [Team Poznań (TP) area] was occupied for four centuries in the ninth and eighth millennia B.P., thus encompassing the 8.2-thousand years B.P. climatic event. A Bayesian analysis of 56 radiocarbon dates yielded a high-resolution chronological model comprising six building phases, with dates ranging from before 8325–8205 to 7925–7815 calibrated years (cal) B.P. Here, we correlate an onsite paleoclimate record constructed from δ(2)H values of lipid biomarkers preserved in pottery vessels recovered from these buildings with changes in architectural, archaeozoological, and consumption records from well-documented archaeological contexts. The overall sequence shows major changes in husbandry and consumption practices at ca. 8.2 thousand years B.P., synchronous with variations in the δ(2)H values of the animal fat residues. Changes in paleoclimate and archaeological records seem connected with the patterns of atmospheric precipitation during the occupation of the TP area predicted by climate modeling. Our multiproxy approach uses records derived directly from documented archaeological contexts. Through this, we provide compelling evidence for the specific impacts of the 8.2-thousand years B.P. climatic event on the economic and domestic activities of pioneer Neolithic farmers, influencing decisions relating to settlement planning and food procurement strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-61267352018-09-07 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. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Social Sciences The 8.2-thousand years B.P. event is evident in multiple proxy records across the globe, showing generally dry and cold conditions for ca. 160 years. Environmental changes around the event are mainly detected using geochemical or palynological analyses of ice cores, lacustrine, marine, and other sediments often distant from human settlements. The Late Neolithic excavated area of the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük East [Team Poznań (TP) area] was occupied for four centuries in the ninth and eighth millennia B.P., thus encompassing the 8.2-thousand years B.P. climatic event. A Bayesian analysis of 56 radiocarbon dates yielded a high-resolution chronological model comprising six building phases, with dates ranging from before 8325–8205 to 7925–7815 calibrated years (cal) B.P. Here, we correlate an onsite paleoclimate record constructed from δ(2)H values of lipid biomarkers preserved in pottery vessels recovered from these buildings with changes in architectural, archaeozoological, and consumption records from well-documented archaeological contexts. The overall sequence shows major changes in husbandry and consumption practices at ca. 8.2 thousand years B.P., synchronous with variations in the δ(2)H values of the animal fat residues. Changes in paleoclimate and archaeological records seem connected with the patterns of atmospheric precipitation during the occupation of the TP area predicted by climate modeling. Our multiproxy approach uses records derived directly from documented archaeological contexts. Through this, we provide compelling evidence for the specific impacts of the 8.2-thousand years B.P. climatic event on the economic and domestic activities of pioneer Neolithic farmers, influencing decisions relating to settlement planning and food procurement strategies. National Academy of Sciences 2018-08-28 2018-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6126735/ /pubmed/30104367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803607115 Text en Copyright © 2018 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Social Sciences Roffet-Salque, Mélanie Marciniak, Arkadiusz Valdes, Paul J. Pawłowska, Kamilla Pyzel, Joanna Czerniak, Lech Krüger, Marta Roberts, C. Neil Pitter, Sharmini Evershed, Richard P. Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers |
title | Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers |
title_full | Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers |
title_fullStr | Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers |
title_full_unstemmed | Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers |
title_short | Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers |
title_sort | evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kybp climate event on near eastern early farmers |
topic | Social Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6126735/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30104367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803607115 |
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