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Late Bronze Age climate change and the destruction of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos

Martin Finné, Karin Holmgren, Chuan-Chou Shen et al., 2017. PLOS ONE 12(12), e0189447.

A stalagmite from Mavri Trypa Cave near Pylos, with 24 U-Th dates of ±26 years, shows generally wetter conditions when the palace was destroyed about 3150–3130 BP, a brief drier spell about 3200 BP, and growing aridity after the destruction.

MYS0D464EDY48B2 · mystery · click to copyMLate Bronze Age collapseArticledoi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189447Checked against the original0

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A local record that does not show drought at the moment of destruction.

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Finné, M., Holmgren, K., Shen, C. C., Hu, H. M., Boyd, M., & Stocker, S. (2017). Late Bronze Age climate change and the destruction of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos. PLOS ONE 12(12), e0189447. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189447
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