No agricultural, city-state forming civilizations existed during the Ice Age due to glacial climatic instability

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Evidence indicates that agriculture and sedentary civilizations arose only after the close of the Ice Age, as stable climatic conditions were necessary for these developments to be viable.

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The retrieved papers support the claim that the climatic instability of the Ice Age precluded the emergence of agriculture and city-state forming civilizations. Specifically, Lake Suigetsu pollen records and historical analyses of the Neolithic transition demonstrate that stable and predictable climates during the early Holocene were a prerequisite for sedentary life and agriculture, whereas previous glacial and transitional periods were too unstable.

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The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology

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T. Nakagawa, P. Tarasov, R. Staff, C. Ramsey, M. Marshall, G. Schlolaut, C. Bryant, A. Brauer, H. Lamb, T. Haraguchi, K. Gotanda, I. Kitaba, H. Kitagawa, J. Plicht, H. Yonenobu, T. Omori, Y. Yokoyama, R. Tada, Y. Yasuda. The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GLOPLACHA.2021.103493

The paper notes that the beginnings of sedentary life and agriculture coincided with stable climates, implying these lifestyles were not rational or feasible during unstable climatic periods.

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The Neolithic Revolution : agriculture, sedentary lifestyle and its consequences

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Mario Martin-Merino. The Neolithic Revolution : agriculture, sedentary lifestyle and its consequences. 2021. https://doi.org/10.33774/coe-2021-2589h

The paper establishes that agriculture and early civilizations arose approximately 10,000 to 5,000 years ago, following the close of the Ice Age during the Holocene transition.

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