Lee Clare

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the hypothesis that the abrupt drainage of Laurentide lakes and associated rapid switch of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation 8200 yr ago had a catastrophic influence on Neolithic civilisation in large parts of southeastern Europe, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Near East.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene was explored, focusing on the social implications of the four major climate cold anomalies that have been identified as key time-windows for global RCC.

TL;DR: This article explored the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and eastern and central Sahara) during the ‘long’ 4th millennium (∼4500-3000) BC.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived a precise calendric date for the Storegga Slide tsunami and used this date for reconstruction of contemporary coastlines in the North Sea in relation to rapidly rising sea-levels, and discuss the potential effects of the tsunami on the contemporaneous Mesolithic population.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the normalization function deemed necessary for 14C histogram shape-correction is identical to the default prior widely used in Bayesian calibration, highlighting flaws in default Bayesian calibrations which may affect archaeological studies that are overly reliant on high calibration precision.