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Discontinuity in Greek Civilization
Rhys Carpenter, 1966. Cambridge University Press.
Three lectures arguing that a change of climate brought repeated drought and crop failure to southern Greece, which ended the Mycenaean palace economy and drove its people away; the first sustained climate explanation of the collapse.
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The first published climate reading.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Carpenter, R. (1966). Discontinuity in Greek Civilization. Cambridge University Press. https://archive.org/details/discontinuitying0000carp
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Carpenter, Rhys. “Discontinuity in Greek Civilization.” Cambridge University Press (1966).