Neolithisation of the Aegean and Southeast Europe during the 6600–6000 calBC period of Rapid Climate Change

201490 citationsJournal Articlediamond Open Access

Authors

Bernhard Weninger · Institute of Archaeology

Lee Clare · Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung

Fokke Gerritsen

Barbara Horejs · Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology

Raiko Krauß · University of Tübingen

Jörg Linstädter · Institute of Archaeology

Rana Özbal · Koç University

Abstract

In extension of the recently established ‘Rapid Climate Change (RCC) Neolithisation Model’ (Clare 2013), in the present paper we demonstrate the existence of a remarkable coincidence between the exact (decadel-scale) entry and departure dates of the Neolithic into/from the Aegean (~6600/6050 calBC) with begin/end of RCC-conditions.

Topics & Keywords

Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Climate action

Publication Details

Published in: Documenta Praehistorica

Volume 41, pp. 1-31

DOI: 10.4312/dp.41.1

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