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title: "Famine in Post-Glacial Levant"
year: 9200
canonical: "https://recap.at/9200/neolithic-famine"
slug: "neolithic-famine"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "9200-01-01"
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# Famine in Post-Glacial Levant

> Rapid crop failures in early agricultural societies triggered mass starvation and the abandonment of nascent settlements, demonstrating the fragility of Neolithic food systems.

## Summary

The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which ruled from 332 to 31 BC. The inscription has been tentatively dated to the reign of king Ptolemy V.

## Sources

- [Famine Stela](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_Stela) - Wikipedia

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