Precise timing of abrupt increase in dust activity in the Middle East coincident with 4.2 ka social change
The extent to which climate change causes significant societal disruption remains controversial. An important example is the decline of the Akkadian Empire in northern Mesopotamia ∼4.2 ka, for which the existence of a coincident climate event is still uncertain. Here we present an Iranian stalagmite...
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National Academy of Sciences
2018
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