scholarly journals The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 BC

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (04) ◽  
pp. S1-S16
Author(s):  
Malcolm H. Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Human History ◽  
Human Response ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Trading Networks ◽  
The Bronze Age

Human history has been marked by major episodes of climate change and human response, sometimes accompanied by independent innovations. In the Bronze Age, the sequencing of causes and reactions is dependent in part on dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating. This paper explores the interaction of a major, prolonged desiccation event between c. 2300 and 2000 BC and human agency including migrations, the displacement of trading networks, warfare, the appearance of weapons made of bronze, and the first appearance of sailing vessels in the Mediterranean.

scholarly journals The Interaction of Climate Change and Agency in the Collapse of Civilizations ca. 2300–2000 BC

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. S1-S16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm H. Wiener
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Human History ◽  
Human Response ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Trading Networks ◽  
The Bronze Age

Human history has been marked by major episodes of climate change and human response, sometimes accompanied by independent innovations. In the Bronze Age, the sequencing of causes and reactions is dependent in part on dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating. This paper explores the interaction of a major, prolonged desiccation event between c. 2300 and 2000 BC and human agency including migrations, the displacement of trading networks, warfare, the appearance of weapons made of bronze, and the first appearance of sailing vessels in the Mediterranean.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon dating of the bronze age bone pins from Eurasian steppe

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Shishlina ◽  
Johan Plicht ◽  
Elya Zazovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The North ◽  
Eurasian Steppe ◽  
Culture Formation ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Bronze Age

AbstractBone catapult and hammer-headed pins played one of very specific roles in funerary offerings in the Bronze Age graves uncovered in the Eurasian Steppes and the North Caucasus. Scholars used different types of pins as key grave offerings for numerous chronological models. For the first time eight pins have been radiocarbon dated. 14C dating of bone pins identified the catapult type pin as the earliest one. They marked the period of the Yamnaya culture formation. Then Yamnaya population produced hammer-headed pins which became very popular in other cultural environments and spread very quickly across the Steppe and the Caucasus during 2900–2650 cal BC. But according to radiocarbon dating bone pins almost disappeared after 2600 cal BC.

scholarly journals ‘The Wool Road’ of the Late Bronze Age: Cultural, Geographical, and Chronological Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Natal'ya Shishlina
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
Wool Textile ◽  
South Siberia ◽  
The Bronze Age

Innovative technologies for new products and consumption, a secondary product revolution, have dramatically changed the course of the Bronze Age economic transformations. Changes included introduction of an innovative technology of wool production and it’s spread among the Northern Eurasia population during 3000–2000 BC. Sophisticated methods of studying the ancient wool textile obtained from the Bronze Age sites of Northern Eurasia, i.e. technological analyses, radiocarbon dating, and the identification of the isotope signature preserved in the wool textile, made it possible not only to discuss the time the wool fiber appeared in the Bronze Age textile production and to determine the cultural context and areas but also to discuss a new hypothesis on the formation of so called Wool Road in early 2nd millennium BC – a route that connected the foothills, forest-steppe, and forest regions of Eastern Europe in the West and South Siberia and China in the East. The discovery of wool textiles and their radiocarbon dating clearly defines the spread of the innovative textile strategies out of the Near East from the South to the North, then from the North Caucasus Piedmont areas from the West to the East. The author suggests that one of the ways the wool textile spread to west was from the southern steppe region of Eastern Europe via the Black Sea steppes.

Conclusions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Segal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
21St Century ◽  
International Conflict ◽  
Materials Development ◽  
The Bronze Age

Chapter 13 is the last chapter. It suggests how the 21st century may be described in terms of ‘ages’ analogous to the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Will the 21st century be described as the Silicon Age? Or perhaps be referred to as the Genomic Age? Or maybe the New Polymer Age? The role of climate change and international conflict on the pace of materials development are discussed.

Climate change versus land management in the Po Plain (Northern Italy) during the Bronze Age: New insights from the VP/VG sequence of the Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio

2016 ◽  
Vol 136 ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Cremaschi ◽  
Anna Maria Mercuri ◽  
Paola Torri ◽  
Assunta Florenzano ◽  
Chiara Pizzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Po Plain ◽  
The Bronze Age

Cultural Continuity and Social Resistance: The Chronology of Megalithic Funerary Practices in Southern Iberia

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez ◽  
Águeda Lozano Medina ◽  
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla ◽  
Margarita Sánchez Romero ◽  
Javier Escudero Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Social Resistance ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
Southern Iberia ◽  
The Bronze Age

Inspired by the biographical approach to the study of material culture, a radiocarbon dating programme was undertaken to explore the chronology and temporality of the megalithic monuments in south-eastern Iberia. Instead of one or two dates per tomb, the normal way of approaching this complex issue, we carried out a complete radiocarbon dating series of single tombs based on human remains. We focused our attention on four tholos-type tombs in the cemetery of El Barranquete (Almería, Spain). According to the new radiocarbon series modelled in a Bayesian framework, four main conclusions can be drawn: that the cemetery shows a very long period of funerary activity, which began in the late fourth millennium and ended in the last centuries of the second millennium calbc; that continuity of ritual practices attained an unexpected importance during the Bronze Age; that interments, which fall into cultural periods that would be unthinkable if only the typological properties of the grave goods were considered, occurred; and that each tomb had a complex and very different biography.

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