Volcanoes, Catastrophe and the Global Crisis of the Late Second Millennium BC

When Andrew Selkirk asked me to append some comments to Mike Baillie’s piece on volcanic “events”, it prompted the notion that I had written on catastrophes in Current Archaeology some years ago. It proved after a long search to be exactly ten years ago (CA 67) and to be a paragraph entitled “Catastrophe?” I postulated then a wide-spread collapse of established systems in Britain in the 12th-llth Centuries BC; everything from settlement and agriculture to burials and domestic pottery... archaeology.co.uk