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DOI	10.1017/S0959774311000011
	Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant
	Maher, Lisa A.; Banning, E. B.; Chazan, Michael
通讯作者	Maher, LA (corresponding author), Univ Cambridge, Leverhulme Ctr Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam St, Cambridge CB2 1QH, England.
来源期刊	CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
ISSN	0959-7743
EISSN	1474-0540
出版年	2011
卷号	21 期号:1 页码:1-29
英文摘要	Few prehistoric developments have received as much attention as the origins of agriculture and its associated societal implications in the Near East. A great deal of this research has focused on correlating the timing of various cultural transformations leading up to farming and village life with dramatic climatic events. Using rigorously selected radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites and palaeoenvironmental datasets, we test the predominate models for culture change from the early Epipalaeolithic to the Pottery Neolithic (c. 23,000-8000 cal. bp) to explore how well they actually fit with well-documented and dated palaeoclimatic events, such as the Bolling-Allerod, Younger Dryas, Preboreal and 8.2 ka event. Our results demonstrate that these correlations are not always as clear or as consistent as some authors suggest. Rather, any relationships between climate change and culture change are more complicated than existing models allow. The lack of fit between these sources of data highlight our need for further and more precise chronological data from archaeological sites, additional localized palaeoclimatic data sets, and more nuanced models for integrating palaeoenvironmental data and prehistoric people's behaviours.
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000287606700001
WOS关键词	CHRONOLOGICALLY ORDERED SAMPLES ; GREENLAND ICE-CORE ; HOLOCENE DEAD-SEA ; NORTH-ATLANTIC ; PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION ; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY ; CHRONOMETRIC HYGIENE ; BAYESIAN STATISTICS ; CULTURAL-EVOLUTION ; POLLEN RECORDS
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/360958
作者单位	[Maher, Lisa A.] Univ Cambridge, Leverhulme Ctr Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge CB2 1QH, England; [Banning, E. B.; Chazan, Michael] Univ Toronto, Dept Anthropol, Toronto, ON M5S 2S2, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Maher, Lisa A.,Banning, E. B.,Chazan, Michael. Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant[J],2011,21(1):1-29.
APA	Maher, Lisa A.,Banning, E. B.,&Chazan, Michael.(2011).Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant.CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL,21(1),1-29.
MLA	Maher, Lisa A.,et al."Oasis or Mirage? Assessing the Role of Abrupt Climate Change in the Prehistory of the Southern Levant".CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL 21.1(2011):1-29.