Abstract
In the southern regions of Central Asia, during the Late Bronze Age, great social changes took place in various fields, and as a result of these changes, BC. In the middle of the 2nd millennium, profound cultural changes will also take place. Among the various reasons proposed to explain these socio-cultural changes, the hypothesis of global climate change in Central Asia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC by various scientists has a special place. This article reviews paleoecological data related to climate changes during the middle and late Holocene by European and German scientists.
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