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... The Straldzha record suggests strong human impact, including deforestation, burning, grazing, and erosion, beginning around 4000 cal. a BP, coincident with other major clearances in the Balkans (Willis, 1994). The second millennium BC corresponds roughly to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages in SE Bulgaria, periods that are, unfortunately, poorly attested on the Thracian Plain (Bojad ziev, 1998;Leshtakov, 2002Leshtakov, , 2009). In the early second millennium (the Middle Bronze Age) many sites were abandoned, including most tells, while stock-breeding appears to have become more mobile (Leshtakov, 2009). ...
... The second millennium BC corresponds roughly to the Middle and Late Bronze Ages in SE Bulgaria, periods that are, unfortunately, poorly attested on the Thracian Plain (Bojad ziev, 1998;Leshtakov, 2002Leshtakov, , 2009). In the early second millennium (the Middle Bronze Age) many sites were abandoned, including most tells, while stock-breeding appears to have become more mobile (Leshtakov, 2009). Changes in settlement patterns and subsistence strategies become clearer in the latter second millennium (the Late Bronze Age), when more numerous, distributed, and often short-lived settlements were founded across the Thracian Plain and uplands on its periphery (Leshtakov, 2002(Leshtakov, , 2009Athanassov, 2011). ...
... In the early second millennium (the Middle Bronze Age) many sites were abandoned, including most tells, while stock-breeding appears to have become more mobile (Leshtakov, 2009). Changes in settlement patterns and subsistence strategies become clearer in the latter second millennium (the Late Bronze Age), when more numerous, distributed, and often short-lived settlements were founded across the Thracian Plain and uplands on its periphery (Leshtakov, 2002(Leshtakov, , 2009Athanassov, 2011). For the Yambol Region, Fig. 8 indicates the decline of tell settlements and the increasing proportion of shortlived 'flat' sites over time. ...
The Thracian Plain in the SE Balkans was one of the main corridors through which Neolithic agriculture
spread into continental Europe. Previous studies have invoked rapid sea-level and climatic changes to
explain the timing of agricultural expansion. We present a new record of vegetation, fire and lacustrine
sedimentation from Bulgarian Thrace to examine environmental change in this region since the Last
Glacial Maximum. Our record indicates the persistence of cold steppe vegetation from 37,500 to
17,900 cal. a BP, semidesert vegetation from 17,900 to 10,300 cal. a BP, forest-steppe vegetation from
10,300 to 8900 cal. a BP, and mixed oak woods from 8900 to 4000 cal. a BP, followed by widespread
deforestation, burning and grazing. Early-Holocene forest expansion in Bulgarian Thrace closely followed
changes in the Black Sea’s regional moisture balance and appears to have been influenced by solar-forced
changes in seasonality. We suggest that climatic aridity and/or enhanced seasonality e lasting until at
least 8900 cal. a BP e could have delayed the spread of early agriculture from the Aegean coast into
the continental lowlands of the Balkans and thence into the rest of Europe.
