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Climate Change and the Adoption of Agriculture in North-West Europe

Clive Bonsall

Department of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK, C.Bonsall{at}ed.ac.uk

Mark G. Macklin

Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, mvm{at}aber.ac.uk

David E. Anderson

School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK, d.anderson{at}etoncollege.org.uk

Robert W. Payton

Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, R.W.Payton{at}newcastle.ac.uk

Farming can be shown to have spread very rapidly across the British Isles and southern Scandinavia around 6000 years ago, following a long period of stasis when the agricultural `frontier' lay further south on the North European Plain between northern France and northern Poland. The reasons for the delay in the adoption of agriculture on the north-west fringe of Europe have been debated by archaeologists for decades. Here, we present fresh evidence that this renewed phase of agricultural expansion was triggered by a significant change in climate. This finding may also have implications for understanding the timing of the expansion of farming into some upland areas of southern and mid-latitude Europe.

Key Words: agriculture • climate change • Mesolithic • Neolithic • north-west Europe

European Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 5, No. 1, 9-23 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1465712002005001168
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