SEDIMENTARY FILLS OF THE BOR BASIN (CENTRAL ANATOLIA): CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT DURING EARLY HOLOCENE AND THE MID-HOLOCENE

Abstract. This paper focuses on early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) records in the Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives (9.2 to 8.2 ka events) and on their impact on prehistoric societies. This lack of data handicaps the general interpretation of climate impacts on human societies, which flourished in recent years. Key questions remain about the impact of early Holocene cooling events on the Mediterranean climate, ecosystems and human societies. In this paper, we discuss some examples from river and lake systems from the eastern to central Mediterranean area (central Anatolia, Cyprus, northeastern and northwestern Greece) that illustrate some palaeohydrological and erosion variations that modified the sustainability of the first Neolithic populations in this region. Results allow us to present direct land–sea correlations and to reconstruct regional long-term trends as well as millennial- to centennial-scale climatic changes. In this context, we question the socio-economic and geographical adaptation capacities of these societies (mobility, technology, economic practices, social organisation) during the “early Holocene” interval (11.7 to 8.2 ka), which corresponds partly to the Sapropel 1 deposition in the eastern Mediterranean sea.

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Interactions between climate change and human activities during the Early to Mid Holocene in the East Mediterranean basins

10.5194/cp-2016-4 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

J. F. Berger ◽

L. Lespez ◽

C. Kuzucuoğlu ◽

A. Glais ◽

F. Hourani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Mediterranean Area ◽

Climate Impact ◽

Early Holocene ◽

Central Anatolia ◽

Central Mediterranean ◽

Long Term Trends ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Lake Systems ◽

The Impact

Abstract. This paper focuses on Early Holocene Rapid Climate Changes (RCC) records in the Mediterranean zone, which are under-represented in continental archives (9.2 to 8.2 ka events) and on their impact on prehistoric societies. This lack of data handicaps indeed assumptions about climate impact on human societies which flourished in recent years. Key questions remain about the impact of Early Holocene cooling events on the Mediterranean climate, ecosystems and human societies. In this paper, we discuss some examples from river and lake systems from the eastern to central Mediterranean area (Central Anatolia, Cyprus, NE and NW Greece,) that illustrate some paleohydrological and erosion variations that modified the sustainability of the first Neolithic populations in this region. Results allow us to present direct land-sea correlations, and to reconstruct regional long-term trends as well as millennial to centennial-scaled climatic changes. In this context, we question the socio-economic and geographical adaptation capacities of these societies (mobility, technology, economic practices, social organisation) during the "Early Holocene" interval (11.7 to 8.2 ka) which corresponds partly to the Sapropele 1 deposition in the Eastern Mediterranean sea.

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Sequence modeling in zircon double-dating of early Holocene Mt. Erciyes domes (Central Anatolia)

Quaternary Geochronology ◽

10.1016/j.quageo.2020.101129 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 61 ◽

pp. 101129

Author(s):

Bjarne Friedrichs ◽

Gokhan Atıcı ◽

Martin Danišík ◽

Esra Yurteri ◽

Axel K. Schmitt

Keyword(s):

Early Holocene ◽

Central Anatolia ◽

Sequence Modeling

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A Compositional Study (pXRF) of Early Holocene Obsidian Assemblages from Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean

Open Archaeology ◽

10.1515/opar-2019-0011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 155-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Theodora Moutsiou

Keyword(s):

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Eastern Mediterranean Region ◽

Early Holocene ◽

Central Anatolia ◽

Archaeological Sites ◽

Long Distance ◽

Sea Transport ◽

The Social ◽

Social Landscape ◽

Compositional Study

AbstractThis paper presents the results of the geochemical characterisation of complete obsidian assemblages dating to the Early Aceramic Neolithic (8200–6900 Cal BC) and located in Cyprus, eastern Mediterranean. Obsidian artefacts have over the years been recovered from a number of Early Holocene archaeological sites on the island of Cyprus. As there are no obsidian sources on Cyprus, the presence of obsidian island-wide indicates long-distance sea transport/distribution, central Anatolia usually considered as the main supplying region. Portable XRF technology (X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry) was applied to determine numbers of obsidian sources represented in complete archaeological assemblages and address research questions concerning the social landscape Cyprus was part of during the Early Holocene, a time of significant change in the broader eastern Mediterranean region.

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The Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal: investigating an archaeological terra incognita

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0066154600008656 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 58 ◽

pp. 15-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Bleda S. Düring

Keyword(s):

Research Strategy ◽

Convincing Evidence ◽

Early Holocene ◽

Central Anatolia ◽

Archaeological Record ◽

Substantial Evidence ◽

North Central ◽

Terra Incognita ◽

South Central ◽

Research Intensity

AbstractThis paper investigates why we lack convincing evidence for human activities in north-central Anatolia for the period between 10,000 and 6,000 BC cal. This paucity of data can be contrasted with substantial evidence for Neolithic communities in south-central Anatolia from about 8,500 BC cal, and of earlier hunter-gatherer communities in that region. This difference in our data is especially problematic because in terms of ecology both regions appear to be broadly similar. In this paper this enigmatic paucity of evidence for the Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia will be scrutinised. In particular, this entails a discussion of the existing discourse on the paucity of evidence and an evaluation of the three types of argument that have been put forward to explain it: first, that the region was not occupied because of unfavourable ecological conditions; second, that the practices of Early Holocene groups in north-central Anatolia have left an insubstantial archaeological record; and, third, that the paucity of evidence is best explained by a combination of the factors of site preservation, site visibility and research intensity. Finally, a research strategy will be proposed for the future investigation of the Early Holocene occupation of north-central Anatolia.

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