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Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris. This is episode 24, Civilization, a summary of the Neolithic. Thank you. The one defining event which for me dictates the end of the Paleolithic and the beginning of the Neolithic is the Younger Dryas.

The Younger Dryas is a climatic event which affected the vegetation of the earth, particularly the northern hemisphere, and forced human beings

into improving and adapting their skills in order to survive.

This was caused by the temperatures dropping dramatically

for a period of a thousand years or more.

We initially it speculated that this global temperature drop was caused

by meltwater drifts interfering with climatic balances but there was

recent evidence of an impact theory since the discovery

of a crater near Greenland.

Whatever caused it, this global temperature drop is called the younger dryass and happened

between 11,000 and 9,500 B.C. there was also an older dryass and an oldest dryass which occurred during the interglacial before the younger dryass. It is named after the dryass plant which is a northern hemisphere survivor of such

temperature plunges. So we are going to explore what happened after the Younger Dryas and we are going to try to stick

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