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The 4.2 ka BP Event in the Mediterranean region: an overview
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Giovanni Zanchetta
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Aurel Perşoiu
Emil Racoviţă Institute of Speleology, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Rosine Cartier
Quaternary Sciences, Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Albert Català
GRC Geociències Marines, Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà,
Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Isabel Cacho
GRC Geociències Marines, Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà,
Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Jonathan R. Dean
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK
Federico Di Rita
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Russell N. Drysdale
School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Martin Finnè
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Uppsala,
Sweden
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Ilaria Isola
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Bassem Jalali
LOCEAN Laboratory, Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Universitè de Paris 06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, Paris, France
Fabrizio Lirer
Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR)-CNR Napoli, Naples, Italy
Donatella Magri
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Alessia Masi
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Leszek Marks
Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Anna Maria Mercuri
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Reggio Emilia e Modena, Modena, Italy
Odile Peyron
Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (ISEM), Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Laura Sadori
Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Marie-Alexandrine Sicre
LOCEAN Laboratory, Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Universitè de Paris 06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, Paris, France
Fabian Welc
Institute of Archaeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland
Christoph Zielhofer
Chair of Physical Geography, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Elodie Brisset
IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona,
Spain
Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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The Mediterranean region has returned some of the clearest evidence of a climatically dry period occurring approximately 4200 years ago. We reviewed selected proxies to infer regional climate patterns between 4.3 and 3.8 ka. Temperature data suggest a cooling anomaly, even if this is not uniform, whereas winter was drier, along with dry summers. However, some exceptions to this prevail, where wetter condition seems to have persisted, suggesting regional heterogeneity.
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