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The 33 pages that link to Younger Dryas, each with the reason it gives.

• Neolithic RevolutionRelated: Its abrupt climate change shaped conditions around early Southwest Asian cultivation.

• PaleoclimatologyBroader topic: Its abrupt cooling is a classic test of how quickly climate can shift.

• Last Glacial MaximumCompared with: It was a late-glacial cold reversal, long after the LGM ice maximum.

• HoloceneRelated: Its abrupt end closely precedes the formal beginning of the Holocene.

• PaleoecologyRelated: Its ecological shifts are traced through fossils, pollen, and other environmental records.

• PaleoclimateBroader topic: This abrupt cooling tests explanations for rapid climate shifts at the end of the last glaciation.

• Quaternary extinction eventRelated: This abrupt climate episode overlaps with the final losses in some regions.

• Pollen analysisRelated: Pollen records document abrupt vegetation changes during this late-glacial cold interval.

• Laurentide Ice SheetRelated: Laurentide meltwater routing has been proposed as a contributor to this abrupt cooling.

• Paleocene–Eocene Thermal MaximumCompared with: It was a sharp regional cooling episode, unlike the PETM’s global greenhouse warming.

• Clovis cultureRelated: Its timing overlaps proposed explanations for megafaunal extinction and changes in late Ice Age lifeways.

• MegafaunaRelated: Its timing overlaps with ecological changes and extinctions in some regions.

• Pleistocene glaciationBroader topic: This abrupt cold reversal interrupted the warming after the Last Glacial Maximum.

• Dansgaard–Oeschger eventCompared with: Its cooling followed the Bølling–Allerød, unlike the abrupt warming that defines an event.

• Natufian cultureRelated: Its climatic shift overlapped with late Natufian lifeways and settlement changes.

• PaleoceanographyBroader topic: Marine records document abrupt regional cooling and changes in ocean circulation during this interval.

• Ice ageBroader topic: This abrupt cold episode interrupted the warming that ended the last glacial period.

• Last Glacial PeriodBroader topic: Its abrupt end closely preceded the Holocene transition.

• QuaternaryBroader topic: This late-glacial cold reversal illustrates the speed of Quaternary climate shifts.

• Glacial periodRelated: This abrupt return to cold conditions complicates the story of the last deglaciation.

• Mammoth SteppeRelated: This abrupt cooling coincided with major ecological shifts near the steppe’s end.

• Pre-Pottery NeolithicRelated: Its climate shifts may have influenced subsistence choices before early farming expanded.

• Pleistocene megafauna extinctionBroader topic: This abrupt climate reversal overlapped with some North American extinctions and cultural changes.

• Lake AgassizRelated: A freshwater-drainage link to this cooling episode has been proposed but remains contested.

• Abrupt climate changeBroader topic: Its rapid onset and end make it a well-studied abrupt shift.

• Late Pleistocene extinctionsRelated: Its abrupt climate shift overlapped with late extinctions in some regions.

• Ground slothRelated: Its climate shifts overlap with the extinction period of surviving American ground sloths.

• Pre-Pottery Neolithic BRelated: Its end preceded the climatic conditions in which PPNB farming societies developed.

• Allerød oscillationRelated: Its onset marks the sharp cooling that ended the Allerød.

• Bølling oscillationCompared with: Its cooling interrupted the warm deglacial conditions that began with the Bølling.

• EpipalaeolithicRelated: Its environmental fluctuations affected late Epipalaeolithic communities in parts of Southwest Asia.

• Older DryasCompared with: It was a later and generally longer cold reversal, not the Older Dryas.

• Prehistory of the LevantRelated: Its climatic stress coincided with major changes in Levantine settlement and subsistence.