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The research examined the pivotal period between 18,000 and 7,500 years ago, spanning the end of the last Ice Age and the transition to the warmth of the modern Holocene era. This period overlaps with the shift from mobile hunting to settled farming, leading to the development of villages and, ultimately, cities. Uranium-thorium dating of the stalagmite showed it formed continuously over this period, providing scientists with a complete record of the local climate.
The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The analysis revealed that local rainfall patterns closely matched global temperature shifts recorded in the Greenland ice cores.
