Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1529-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1529-2018
Review article
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22 Oct 2018
Review article |  | 22 Oct 2018

The 4.2 ka BP event in the Levant

David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Rachid Cheddadi, Joël Guiot, and Elise Van Campo

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Studies have long suggested that a protracted drought phase, termed the 4.2 ka BP event, directly impacted subsistence systems (dry farming agro-production, pastoral nomadism, and fishing) and outlying nomad habitats, forcing rain-fed cereal agriculturalists into habitat-tracking when agro-innovations were not available. Here, we focus on this crucial period to examine whether drought was active in the eastern Mediterranean Old World, especially in the Levant.