TY  - JOUR
A1  - Herrle, Jens Olaf
A1  - Bollmann, Jörg
A1  - Gebühr, Christina
A1  - Schulz, Hartmut
A1  - Sheward, Rosie M.
A1  - Giesenberg, Annika
T1  - Black Sea outflow response to Holocene meltwater events
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - During the Holocene, North American ice sheet collapse and rapid sea-level rise reconnected the Black Sea with the global ocean. Rapid meltwater releases into the North Atlantic and associated climate change arguably slowed the pace of Neolithisation across southeastern Europe, originally hypothesized as a catastrophic flooding that fueled culturally-widespread deluge myths. However, we currently lack an independent record linking the timing of meltwater events, sea-level rise and environmental change with the timing of Neolithisation in southeastern Europe. Here, we present a sea surface salinity record from the Northern Aegean Sea indicative of two meltwater events at ~8.4 and ~7.6 kiloyears that can be directly linked to rapid declines in the establishment of Neolithic sites in southeast Europe. The meltwater events point to an increased outflow of low salinity water from the Black Sea driven by rapid sea level rise >1.4 m following freshwater outbursts from Lake Agassiz and the final decay of the Laurentide ice sheet. Our results shed new light on the link between catastrophic sea-level rise and the Neolithisation of southeastern Europe, and present a historical example of how coastal populations could have been impacted by future rapid sea-level rise.
KW  - Palaeoceanography
KW  - Palaeoclimate
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46486
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-464862
SN  - 2045-2322
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VL  - 8
IS  - 1, Art. 4081
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -