Unit:
Specialty Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: From the Bronze Age Palaces to the Hellenistic KingdomsLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Konstantinos Kopanias (Associate Professor in the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean)
Giorgos Vavouranakis: (Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology)
Yannis Papadatos (Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology )
Original Title:
Towards a Holistic View of Climate and Collapse
Translated title:
Towards a Holistic View of Climate and Collapse
Summary:
An understanding of the impacts of climate change on humans must be predicated on several layers of foundational knowledge: an understanding of climatic processes as a whole, an understanding of climatic patterns and trends throughout time, and an understanding of human socio-politico-economical nuances at particular times. In this paper an overview of these three foundations is presented. Climate patterns and forcing mechanisms are defined on a basic level, Holocene (and late Pleistocene) climatic trends are outlined, and changes in human societies (from the Late Neolithic to the Early Iron Ages) at periods concurrent with known climatic shifts are examined.
Main subject category:
Archaeology
Keywords:
paleoclimate, bronze age, early iron age , human-climate interaction, late bronze age collapse, early bronze age collapse, state formation, holocene climate
