Climate in the Iron Age

[moonburn]

can´t help you there there´s just no books to mu knowledge most of my climatoligy knowledge comes from documentaries

i´m sure there´s planty of articles going around one extremly interesting altough not limitated to that time period was about the diferent strain of cereals and trying to pin point from where they came from and trough wich lands it went by to acquire certain caractheristics and at wich point trough domestication strains of diferent cereals became diferent species of the wild occurring seeds

ofc altough very interesting it opens more questions then answers since most wild species have been lost

the cheakpeak (not sure how to spell it right) was fairly interesting it went all the way to turkmenistan and quizirguistan trying to find the original plant and constantly being slapped in the face by new genetic modified seeds wich dogooders left on those distant lands to try and increase the productivity (wich actually only drains the soil and makes the farmer dependent on the seed salesman ...)

as you can imagine it brings about alot of conjecture on the climatological situation of the crescent quarter but overall it was far more fertile then today (wich is wierd cause back then there where no damms ... ) and the weather was milder and more forgiving since it allowed them to grow barley for beer soup production \p

http://books.google.it/books?id=IZ65...epage&q&f=true

about the seulecids maybe you can find references about clima there but not so sure you might have to infer from interpretations