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CLIMATE AND DIET EVOLUTION DURING ANCIENT EGYPT
Touzeau, Alexandra1; Lecuyer, Christophe2,3,4; Amiot, Romain2,3
通讯作者Touzeau, Alexandra
来源期刊QUATERNAIRE
ISSN1142-2904
出版年2017
卷号28期号:2页码:285-293
英文摘要

The Egyptian civilization arose and developed during the Predynastic period (7300 to 5000 years before present or BP e.g. before 1950), synchronous with a large scale climatic event, the end of the African Humid Period. The decrease in the amount of precipitation associated with this climate change could have started earlier in Ethiopia (maybe as soon as 8000 BP), while other regions of tropical and subtropical Africa were affected between 6000 and 5000 BP. Several sources point to a maximum of aridity around 5200 BP. This event could have contributed to the concentration of population inside the Nile valley, and thus to the rise of the Egyptian civilization. After this event, the climate became generally arid but unstable, switching between aridity peaks (in particular at 4000 BP) and relative wetter conditions. Lastly, after 1500 BP, the amount of rainfall became very low but steady. Consequently, the climatic fluctuations could also have affected Egypt during the dynastic period (5000 to 2000 BP). Here, oxygen isotope composition (delta O-18 value) of phosphate was measured in bone and enamel of Egyptian mummies in order to track climate evolution between 5500 and 1500 BP. The delta O-18 values of mineralized tissues reflect the isotopic composition of the drinking water of studied individuals, i.e. the water from the Nile River for Egyptians. Estimated delta O-18 values of the past Nile river water increased at the end of the studied period. This marks a decrease in the amount of precipitation or an increase in local temperatures at the two source regions of the river, namely Ethiopia and the Equatorial Lake Plateau. These results confirm that the drying trend continued during the dynastic period and question its effect on the Egyptian prosperity.


英文关键词Oxygen isotopes Egyptian mummies bone enamel Nile precipitation amount East Africa
类型Article
语种French
国家France
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000404769000022
WOS关键词NILE VALLEY ; GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS ; STABLE-ISOTOPES ; TOOTH ENAMEL ; NEW-KINGDOM ; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE ; OXYGEN ISOTOPES ; MUMMY TISSUES ; PHOSPHATE
WOS类目Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Geology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/201776
作者单位1.Univ Paris Saclay, IPSL 8212, UVSQ, LSCE,UMR CEA,CNRS, Gif Sur Yvette, France;
2.Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5276, Lab Geol Lyon Terre, Planetes,Environm, Lyon, France;
3.Ecole Normale Super Lyon, Lyon, France;
4.Inst Univ France, 103 Blvd St Michel, F-75005 Paris, France
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Touzeau, Alexandra,Lecuyer, Christophe,Amiot, Romain. CLIMATE AND DIET EVOLUTION DURING ANCIENT EGYPT[J],2017,28(2):285-293.
APA Touzeau, Alexandra,Lecuyer, Christophe,&Amiot, Romain.(2017).CLIMATE AND DIET EVOLUTION DURING ANCIENT EGYPT.QUATERNAIRE,28(2),285-293.
MLA Touzeau, Alexandra,et al."CLIMATE AND DIET EVOLUTION DURING ANCIENT EGYPT".QUATERNAIRE 28.2(2017):285-293.
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