No agricultural, city-state forming civilizations existed during the Ice Age due to glacial climatic instability
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SUPPORTED
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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 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 · cited by 40
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
2021 · cited by 2
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.