One of *those* topics.
Posted on 02/09/2023 5:51:26 AM PST by FarCenter
The Hittite Empire emerged around 1650 BC in semi-arid central Anatolia, a region that includes much of modern Turkey. For the next five centuries, the Hittites were one of the major powers of the ancient world, but around 1200 BC, the capital at Hattusa was abandoned and the empire was no more.
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Manning and Sparks combined their labs to scrutinize samples from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey. ... But equally important are the juniper trees -- which grow slowly and live for centuries, even a millennium -- that were used to build the structure and contain a hidden paleoclimatic record of the region.
The researchers looked at the patterns of tree-ring growth, with unusually narrow rings likely indicating dry conditions, in conjunction with changes in the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 recorded in the rings, which indicate the tree's response to the availability of moisture.
Their analysis finds a general shift to drier conditions from the later 13th into the 12th century BC, and they peg a dramatic continuous period of severe dryness to approximately 1198-96 BC, plus or minus three years, which matches the timeline of the Hittite's disappearance.
"We have two complementary sets of evidence," Manning said. "The tree-ring widths indicate something really unusual is going on, and because it's very narrow rings, that means the tree is struggling to stay alive. In a semi-arid environment, the only plausible reason that's happening is because there's little water, therefore it's a drought, and this one is particularly serious for three consecutive years. Critically, the stable isotope evidence extracted from the tree-rings confirms this hypothesis, and we can establish a consistent pattern despite this all being over 3,150 years ago."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
They should have paid the Hittite regime more in taxes to combat climate change.
Climate Change from those huge chariots spewing horse manure all over the Levant, no doubt.................
Human caused Global Warm seems to have been a problem for a long time now. Obviously the White race of Atlanteans are the culprits. Or maybe it was the Caucasians from the Caucusus.
Our global economy has pretty much eliminated our worries about drought. If it’s dry in one place, it’s likely wet in another... So our food supply is pretty secure. We throw out food on a regular basis... That’s how food rich western countries have become.
Starvation still occurs, but only in countries that can’t afford to become part of the global economy. Most of them of course, are in Africa.
and isn’t this the same region that was just hit with all these earthquakes?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1623515951244398593
Yeah, they’d have been better off using electric chariots.
I guess they were driving too many SUVs. Not too long before this animals were still grazing the Sahara. Climate change will always be with us. Tying humans to it is a bigger scam than Covid was.
Drought problems in one place should not be a problem today. Unless your woke, socialist country decides to kill off farming. Then everybody still starves.
Thankfully that could never happen in Europe or Joe Biden’s US. /off sarc
Before anyone jumps in with the snark that the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations took place over an extended period, know that Cline discusses that in his talk with some humorous asides about the arbitrariness of picking a title.
Cline went on the talk circuit after his talk was published. There are several versions of this talk on YouTube, with some of them being adjusted for various audiences. This was the first one I watched, and I still am partial to it. Cline teaches at GW and this was for a general audience in Bethesda, MD, so this is for a lay audience, not academic specialists.
Maybe we’d all better start doing a rain dance.
Volcanic eruptions reduce global rainfall
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200527105036.htm
Did camel farts cause it?
This is why we need to build 5 more great lakes.
Plues a few more Meh Lakes. Like Champlain... Winnipesaukee... Moosehead...
This was part of what’s now known as the bronze age collapse about 1200 bc.
three causes have been identified.
1.)drought
2.)earthquakes
3.)invasions of the sea peoples. These were from various tribes around the medeterranian including the cretes and greeks and phoencians. Its now thought that that the impetus group and largest among them were from the Po valley in northern Italy.
Here’s a good book on the subject.
Or make sure there is an Indian lake in every state. Or is that forbidden now? Maybe it’s just “squaw” that is forbidden.
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