Atlantic period
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European Middle Neolithic, a flourishing of culture c.4000 BC. Source: Creative Commons
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The Atlantic period is a post-Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) European climate regime. This refers to the period from about 6,000-3,000 BC that spans most of the warmest postglacial times. It is also known as the Postglacial Climatic Optimum.
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It was preceded by the Boreal period and followed by the Sub-Boreal period.
The Atlantic period is also part of the current geological epoch known as Holocene which began about 11,700 years ago (~9700BC) and continues up to the present.
Divisions of the Holocene
The principal divisions of the Holocene are:
- Pre-Boreal period (8300 to 7000 BC)
- Boreal period (7000 to 6000 BC)
- Atlantic period (6000 to 3000 BC)
- Sub-Boreal period (3000 to 1000-500 BC)
- Sub-Atlantic period (1000-500 BC to Present)
Further Reading
- Jonas Christensen (2004). Warfare in the European Neolithic. Acta Archaeologica 75 (142,144, 136): 129.
- Grahame Clark and Stuart Piggott (1967). Prehistoric Societies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0140211497.
- Hilda Ellis Davidson (1998). Roles of the Northern Goddess. Routledge. ISBN 0415136105.
- Robert W.Ehrich, Editor (1965). Chronologies in Old World Archaeology. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226194450.
- Marija Gimbutas (1982). The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe 6500–3500 BC: Myths and Cult Images. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 27. ISBN 0520046552.
- Jacquetta Hawkes (1965). Prehistory. New York: the New American Library (a Mentor Book).
- Frank Hibben (1958). Prehistoric Man in Europe. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
- E.O.James (1994). The Cult of the Mother-Goddess. New York: Barnes & Noble. ISBN 1-56619-600-0
- Robert Kertész (2002). Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers in the Northwestern Part of the Great Hungarian Plain. Praehistoria 3.
- J.P.Mallory (1997). Linear Band Ware Culture. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture.
- Fitzroy Dearborn and Arkadiusz Marciniak (2005). Placing Animals in the Neolithic: Social Zooarchaeology of Prehistoric Farming Communities. Routledge Cavendish. ISBN 1844720926.
- Physical Oceanography Index
- H. H. Lamb. Climatic History and the Future. Princeton Univ. Press, 1985. p. 372.
