ORCID
- Roberts, Neil: 0000-0002-9379-1598
Abstract
Significance This study reveals that animal fats preserved in pottery vessels from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site of Çatalhöyük recorded the abrupt 8.2-thousand years B.P. climatic event in their hydrogen isotopic compositions. In addition, significant changes are observed in the archaeology and faunal assemblage of the site, showing how the early farming community at Çatalhöyük had to adapt to climate change. Significantly, this contribution shows that individual biomolecules preserved in ancient animal fats can be used to reconstruct paleoclimate records and thus, provides a powerful tool for the detection of climatic events at well-dated onsite terrestrial locations (i.e., at the very settlements where human populations lived).
DOI
10.1073/ps.1803607115
Publication Date
2018-08-28
Publication Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
115
Issue
35
First Page
8705
Last Page
8709
ISSN
0027-8424
Organisational Unit
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Recommended Citation
Roffet-Salque, M., Marciniak, A., Valdes, P., Pawłowska, K., Pyzel, J., Czerniak, L., Krüger, M., Roberts, C., Pitter, S., & Evershed, R. (2018) 'Evidence for the impact of the 8.2-kyBP climate event on Near Eastern early farmers', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(35), pp. 8705-8709. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1073/ps.1803607115
