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Two sides of the 7.1 ka BP RCC event in the southern Carpathian Basin: human adaptation to the changes in environmental conditions during the Middle and Late Neolithic

One of the rapid climate change (RCC) events, which had lesser impact on the envi-ronmental conditions of the Northern Hemisphere but had stronger impact on the micro regional scale, is 7.1 ka BP event. Cooler and wetter conditions at its onset seem to have accompanied initial dispersal of the central European LBK from its core area to the re-gions, among other, of western Transdanubia and beyond, populating the area south of the Drava River. In the local chronology, this change in the material culture is marked by the appearance of the Middle Neolithic around 5400 BC. The end of this climate event is, however, marked by initial stage of dry and warmer conditions around 5000 BC which enabled settlement formation in the lowlands of the Eastern Slavonia. After this initial phase and the formation of the Late Neolithic tell settlements, over a period of about 500 years change in humidity and temperature occurred, eventually leading to the abandonment of most of the tell sites. Human adaptation to the changes in envi¬ronmental conditions in both micro regions and archaeological contexts is discussed in this paper.

RCC 7.1 ka BP ; LBK ; Middle and Late Neolithic ; tells

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