Egypt
- 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...
- Conference: Pre-modern Climate Change
University of Copenhagen This may be of interest to anyone who is looking at the impact of climate change on ancient civilizations and prehistoric socieities. Climate, and human responses to it, plays an integral part in the formation of society. Thus...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Prehistoric Sahara Teeming With Life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.htmlThis may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn...
Egypt
Saharan Prehistory
It's a very slow news day today, so I've dropped this post into the blog for anyone interested in Egyptian/Saharan prehistory and early/mid Holocene climate.
Whilst hunting around for an article on the website of the Polish Academy of Sciences, I found a couple of Egyptian prehistory papers in their Academia magazine, both in PDF format - both very digestible and informative and very well worth a read. I've linked directly to those articles of interest below:
"The Megaliths of Nabta Playa", Romuald Schild & Fred Wendorf
"The Megaliths of Nabta Playa", Romuald Schild & Fred Wendorf
http://www.pan.pl/academia/nr01/10-15+Schild.pdf
"Prehistoric Herdsmen", Michał Kobusiewicz, Romuald Schild
"Prehistoric Herdsmen", Michał Kobusiewicz, Romuald Schild
http://www.pan.pl/academia/nr07/20-24%20kobusiewicz.pdf
If you are interested in changing prehistoric environmental conditions in the Sahara, and have access either to Athens or to an academic library, then a couple of papers in the current issue of Quarternary International may be of interest (Volume 151, Issue 1, Page 1-144, July 2006 - Dark nature: responses of humans and ecosystems to rapid environmental changes - edited by S.A.G. Leroy, H. Jousse and M. Cremaschi). :
If you are interested in changing prehistoric environmental conditions in the Sahara, and have access either to Athens or to an academic library, then a couple of papers in the current issue of Quarternary International may be of interest (Volume 151, Issue 1, Page 1-144, July 2006 - Dark nature: responses of humans and ecosystems to rapid environmental changes - edited by S.A.G. Leroy, H. Jousse and M. Cremaschi). :
http://tinyurl.com/nphj5
There is also a recent publicly available article about global climate change during the early/mid Holocene at PNAS (Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present - Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Henry Brecher, Mary Davis, Blanca León, Don Les, Ping-Nan Lin, Tracy Mashiotta, and Keith Mountain
There is also a recent publicly available article about global climate change during the early/mid Holocene at PNAS (Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present - Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Henry Brecher, Mary Davis, Blanca León, Don Les, Ping-Nan Lin, Tracy Mashiotta, and Keith Mountain
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/28/10536?etoc (abstract)
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/103/28/10536 (full article in PDF format)
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has also announced that legacy content dating back to volume 1, issue 1, in 1915 is now digitally archived, searchable, and freely available on the PNAS web site at http://www.pnas.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml
And since I seem to have drifted off on a tangent into climate change, if you want to find out more about the basics of climate, as well as climate modelling and prediction, have a look at the rather lovely Basics of Climate Prediction website, which is a well put together self-contained course, using Macromedia Flash 8 animated sequences to introduce visitors to the subject (use the Next button at the bottom right to navigate through the sections):
And since I seem to have drifted off on a tangent into climate change, if you want to find out more about the basics of climate, as well as climate modelling and prediction, have a look at the rather lovely Basics of Climate Prediction website, which is a well put together self-contained course, using Macromedia Flash 8 animated sequences to introduce visitors to the subject (use the Next button at the bottom right to navigate through the sections):
http://www.begbroke.ox.ac.uk/climatebasics/
- 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...
- Conference: Pre-modern Climate Change
University of Copenhagen This may be of interest to anyone who is looking at the impact of climate change on ancient civilizations and prehistoric socieities. Climate, and human responses to it, plays an integral part in the formation of society. Thus...
- 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...
- 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,...
- Prehistoric Sahara Teeming With Life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.htmlThis may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn...