Egypt
- Feature: A Historical Perspective On Climate Change
UN Chronicle (Fekri Hassan) From 11,600 to 8,200 years ago, the climate became warmer and in the Eastern Mediterranean, wetter. It was during this period that successive generations of foragers, who took advantage of the well-watered habitats, adopted...
- Conference: Pre-modern Climate Change
University of Copenhagen Pre-Modern Climate Change. Causes and Human Responses 21st - 23rd October 2009 Climate, and human responses to it, plays an integral part in the formation of society. Thus when climate change occurs, the result of either natural...
- Prehistoric Climate Change
www.newscientist.comAnother one for those amongst you who are intersted in the role of climate change on early prehistory. The latest issue of New Scientist (27th January 2007, p.12) looks at climate change in terms of causes other than Milankovitch cycles,...
- Book Reviews: Impacts Of Climate On Ancient Civilizations
http://www.geotimes.org/current/geomedia.html#review2Book review of The Winds of Change by Eugene Linden. Long term visitors will know that I am interested in past climate change, and its impacts (or otherwise) on human occupation patterns. The above...
- Clues To Climate Change In Egypt's Past
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.past.future/index.html?section=cnn_latest "Harvey Weiss, professor of archaeology at Yale University, says climate change was a fact of life for earlier civilizations. From pharaohs to the medieval Vikings,...
Egypt
Off-topic - Conference: Weather, Climate Change, and British Farming in Historical Perspective
Okay, this one really is slightly bizarre for this blog. But if you're interested in the subject of climate change (which if you're interested in the prehistory of Egypt you probably will be) and you're located in the UK then this might be something that could help to generate some ideas.
Weather, Climate Change, and British Farming in Historical Perspective
Saturday 6 December 2008
Weather, Climate Change, and British Farming in Historical Perspective
Saturday 6 December 2008
This year's British Agricultural History Society winter conference is on 'Weather, Climate Change, and British Farming'. It runs from 10.30-4.30 and includes four papers: Steve Rippon on 'Agriculture in the late Roman and early medieval landscape: environmental or social change?' Bruce Campbell on 'Harvest failure and harvest success: three centuries of English grain yields, 1211-1491' Mary Young, Karen Cullen and Chris Whatley on ' "Depauperat, dead or fled": the social and psychological impact on Scottish rural communities of the turbulent weather suffered in the later seventeenth century.' And John Martin on 'The bleak midwinter of 1947: causes and consequences'.
Venue: Wolfson and Pollard Rooms, Institute of Historical Research, Malet St, London.
Contact: Dr Jane Whittle [email protected]
Website: http://www.bahs.org.uk/
- Feature: A Historical Perspective On Climate Change
UN Chronicle (Fekri Hassan) From 11,600 to 8,200 years ago, the climate became warmer and in the Eastern Mediterranean, wetter. It was during this period that successive generations of foragers, who took advantage of the well-watered habitats, adopted...
- Conference: Pre-modern Climate Change
University of Copenhagen Pre-Modern Climate Change. Causes and Human Responses 21st - 23rd October 2009 Climate, and human responses to it, plays an integral part in the formation of society. Thus when climate change occurs, the result of either natural...
- Prehistoric Climate Change
www.newscientist.comAnother one for those amongst you who are intersted in the role of climate change on early prehistory. The latest issue of New Scientist (27th January 2007, p.12) looks at climate change in terms of causes other than Milankovitch cycles,...
- Book Reviews: Impacts Of Climate On Ancient Civilizations
http://www.geotimes.org/current/geomedia.html#review2Book review of The Winds of Change by Eugene Linden. Long term visitors will know that I am interested in past climate change, and its impacts (or otherwise) on human occupation patterns. The above...
- Clues To Climate Change In Egypt's Past
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/08/earth.past.future/index.html?section=cnn_latest "Harvey Weiss, professor of archaeology at Yale University, says climate change was a fact of life for earlier civilizations. From pharaohs to the medieval Vikings,...