The Holocene timeline

Congratulations, we have finally nailed all the theoretical background behind the "mini D-O cycles"! Probably not exactly the sort of knowledge that will help you in a pub quiz, but I would like to believe that at least some of you got intrigued by the great forces that operate on our planet and beyond.

From now on I shall leave all the general concepts behind and will rather focus on the individual events. For that purpose I have put together a small table of all the Bond oscillations that took place in the Holocene.

No.	Time (BP)	Corresponding Events
0	~0.5 ka	The Little Ice Age
1	~1.4 ka	The Migration Period
2	~2.8 ka	Drought in the Eastern Mediterranean, possibly triggering the collapse of Late Bronze Age cultures
3	~4.2 ka	4.2 kiloyear event; collapse of the Akkadian Empire and the end of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
4	~5.9 ka	5.9. kiloyear event
5	~8.2 ka	8.2. kiloyear event
6	~9.4 ka	Erdalen event in Norway; a cold event in China
7	~10.3 ka
8	~11.1 ka	Ttansition from the Younger Dryas to the boreal; drought in the Levant, possibly leading to the development of agriculture

It is interesting to note that almost all of the abrupt climate change events correspond with some major cultural shift, be it a collapse of a civilisation or a period of intense human migration. The influence of rapid climate change on human populations has not been fully established yet and there is a lot of exciting research going on in that area. In a few posts to follow the discussion will actually be centred around real people and not ice cores and sediment samples for once.