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DOI	10.1038/s41586-022-05693-y
	Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 bc
	Manning, Sturt W.; Kocik, Cindy; Lorentzen, Brita; Sparks, Jed P.
通讯作者	Manning, SW
来源期刊	NATURE
ISSN	0028-0836
EISSN	1476-4687
出版年	2023
卷号	614 期号:7949 页码:719-+
英文摘要	The potential of climate change to substantially alter human history is a pressing concern, but the specific effects of different types of climate change remain unknown. This question can be addressed using palaeoclimatic and archaeological data. For instance, a 300-year, low-frequency shift to drier, cooler climate conditions around 1200 bc is frequently associated with the collapse of several ancient civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East(1-4). However, the precise details of synchronized climate and human-history-scale associations are lacking. The archaeological-historical record contains multiple instances of human societies successfully adapting to low-frequency climate change(5-7). It is likely that consecutive multi-year occurrences of rare, unexpected extreme climatic events may push a population beyond adaptation and centuries-old resilience practices(5,7-10). Here we examine the collapse of the Hittite Empire around 1200 bc. The Hittites were one of the great powers in the ancient world across five centuries(11-14), with an empire centred in a semi-arid region in Anatolia with political and socioeconomic interconnections throughout the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, which for a long time proved resilient despite facing regular and intersecting sociopolitical, economic and environmental challenges. Examination of ring width and stable isotope records obtained from contemporary juniper trees in central Anatolia provides a high-resolution dryness record. This analysis identifies an unusually severe continuous dry period from around 1198 to 1196 (& PLUSMN;3) bc, potentially indicating a tipping point, and signals the type of episode that can overwhelm contemporary risk-buffering practices.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000936543100002
WOS关键词	LATE BRONZE-AGE ; STABLE-ISOTOPES ; TREE-RINGS ; PRECIPITATION ; CLIMATE ; VARIABILITY ; CHRONOLOGY ; TURKEY ; TRANSFORMATION ; RESILIENCE
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/397898
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Manning, Sturt W.,Kocik, Cindy,Lorentzen, Brita,et al. Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 bc[J],2023,614(7949):719-+.
APA	Manning, Sturt W.,Kocik, Cindy,Lorentzen, Brita,&Sparks, Jed P..(2023).Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 bc.NATURE,614(7949),719-+.
MLA	Manning, Sturt W.,et al."Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198-1196 bc".NATURE 614.7949(2023):719-+.