Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse

Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt.- Environmental Change and Human Adaptational Failure at the End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant.- Evidence for Mid-Holocene Environmental Change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria.- Environmental Fluctuations, Agricultural Production and Collapse: A View from Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamia.- The Scenario of Environmental Degradation in the Tell Leilan Region, NE Syria, During the Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change.- Cultural Change in the Aegean c.2200BC.- The Third Millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric Evidence for Settlement Histories and Socio-cultural Change.- Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus.- Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt.- Holocene Climate Change and Man in the Present Day Sahara Desert.- Mid-Holocene Dry Spells in Bohemia, Central Europe.- Geomorphologic Arguments for Mid- to Late Holocene Environmental Change in Central Anatolian (Pluvial) Lake Basins.- The Late Holocene Environmental and Climate Shift in Russia and Surrounding Lands.- Environmental and Climatic Changes Between 3 and 5ka BP in Southeastern Ukraine.- Mid- to Late Holocene Changes in Central Europe Climate and Man.- The Age and Causes of Mid-Late Holocene Environmental Change in Southwest Turkey.- Bronze Age Regression and Change of Sedimentation on The Aegean Coastal Plains of Anatolia (Turkey).- Environmental Changes in Holocene Lacustrine Sequences from Karapinar in the Konya Plain (Turkey).- Proxy Indications of Holocene Winter Rains in Southwest Asia Compared with Simulated Rainfall.- Monsoon Regime Variations During the Late Holocene in the Southwestern India.- Third Millennium Climate in the Near East Based upon Pollen Evidence.- Middle and Late Holocene Vegetation and Climate Changes in Peninsular Italy.- Environmental Changes in Central Europe 5000-3000 BP.- Development of Sediments, Soils, Erosional