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Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
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Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 22, 2013 at 12:20 pm
civilization was due to regional drought.

The depredations of the Sea Peoples are usually credited for destroying the Late Bronze Age empires c 1200 BCE but what set off such a massive migration of people? And why were those empires so weak that they could not repel bands of marauders? A new report from Tel Aviv University cites long-term drought as the answer.

Quote: Experts have long pondered the cause of the crisis that led to the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, and now believe that by studying grains of fossilized pollen they have uncovered the cause. In a study published Monday in Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University, researchers say it was drought that led to the collapse in the ancient southern Levant.

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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 22, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Oh darn. I read that as "collapse of the labia."
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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 22, 2013 at 4:36 pm
(October 22, 2013 at 4:23 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Oh darn. I read that as "collapse of the labia."

Maybe the Minimalist had a Freudian slip of the tongue Wink
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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 23, 2013 at 3:28 am
Wasn't because of money$$? And just which "civilisation" are we talking about?

Rome doesn't seem to have suffered. Thinking
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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 23, 2013 at 4:36 am
I'm surprised 'god did it' isn't being refuted with science aGain.
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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 25, 2013 at 8:27 pm
(October 23, 2013 at 3:28 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Wasn't because of money$$? And just which "civilisation" are we talking about?

Rome doesn't seem to have suffered. Thinking

People in what is now Rome were still living in wattle-and-daub huts in the late Bronze Age, when the civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean collapsed.
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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 25, 2013 at 8:54 pm
I can relate to this.

Since giving up dairy it hasn't been a problem but I used to get very severe hay-fever.

It was particularly bad in very dry weather.

So drought -->
More pollen in the air -->
More hay fever -->
Everyone gets apathetic and sleepy and miserable -->
Many people go on holiday to wetter climates -->
Holiday destinations couldn't accommodate the extra demand (no room at the inn) -->
Economies collapse.

Meanwhile, as it is universally known that snake oil is the cure for hay-fever, some people get rich.


These people (apothecaries, priests etc.) also make a tidy profit selling marauder repellent.


Makes perfect sense, now.

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RE: Pollen Study Indicates the Collapse of the LBA
October 25, 2013 at 9:25 pm
Sucks for those guys.

I wonder what kind of impact that had on religions as we know them today....
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