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Tripartite climate reversal in Central Europe 5600–5300 years ago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michel Magny ,
Urs Leuzinger ,
Sigmar Bortenschlager  and
Jean Nicolas Haas
Michel Magny*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Chrono-Ecologie, CNRS-UMR 6565, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France
Urs Leuzinger
Affiliation:
Archaeological Department of the Canton of Thurgau, Schlossmühlestrasse 15a, 8510 Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Sigmar Bortenschlager
Affiliation:
University of Innsbruck, Department of Botany, Division of Palynology, Systematics and Geobotany, Sternwartestraße 15, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
*
*Corresponding author. Fax: +33 3 81 66 65 68.E-mail address:[email protected](M. Magny).
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Abstract

The history of variations in water level of Lake Constance, as reconstructed from sediment and pollen analysis of a sediment sequence from the archaeological site of Arbon-Bleiche 3, shows an abrupt rise in lake level dendrochronologically dated to 5375 yr ago (5320 yr relative to AD 1950). This event, paralleled by the destruction of the Neolithic village by fire, provoked the abandonment of this prehistoric lake-shore location established in the former shallow bay of Arbon-Bleiche, and was the last of a series of three episodes of successively higher lake level, the first occurring at 5600–5500 cal yr B.P. The dendrochronologically dated rise event was synchronous with an abrupt increase in atmospheric 14C. This supports the hypothesis of an abrupt climate change forced by varying solar activity. Moreover, the three successive episodes of higher lake level between 5600 and 5300 cal yr B.P. at Arbon-Bleiche 3 coincided with climatic cooling and/or changes in moisture conditions in various regions of both hemispheres. This period corresponds to the mid-Holocene climate transition (onset of the Neoglaciation) and suggests inter-hemispheric linkages for the climate variations recorded at Arbon-Bleiche 3. This mid-Holocene climate reversal may have resulted from complex interactions between changes in orbital forcing, ocean circulation and solar activity. Finally, despite different seasonal hydrological regimes, the similarities between lake-level records from Lake Constance and from Jurassian lakes over the mid-Holocene period point to time scale as a crucial factor in considering the possible impact of climate change on environments.

Keywords

Lake-level changesWater budgetNeolithic lake-dwellingsCentral EuropeClimate oscillationsHoloceneSolar activity
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Quaternary Research , Volume 65 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 3 - 19
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University of Washington

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