‘Calibrating’ Palaeoclimatology-informed Research in Old World Archaeology: Data, Methods and Theories
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
After two decades of increasing and often deterministic palaeoclimatology-informed archaeological research there is a need to scrutinize, calibrate and improve our approaches to climate change in the past and present. Simple cause-and-effect correlations, often on the basis of coarsely resolved time series, are gradually being supplemented by multi-scalar models of non-linear dynamics, including concepts such as adaptive cycles or critical transitions. Furthermore, mathematical modeling of culture-environment/climate interaction is increasingly applied to single out parameters or to search for alternative explanations. Palaeo-climatic time series have become more precise, as have archaeological chronologies, and with the increase in temporal resolution previous interpretations of climate-culture interconnections on a continental or global scale are beginning to be challenged and to be replaced by more fine grained locally and regionally scaled research projects. This session will present case studies of such multi-scalar palaeoclimatology-informed archaeology from the Old World, and will discuss the data, methods and theories as well as outline future directions for palaeo-climatic research in archaeology.
Other Keywords
Climate Change •
Resilience •
Climate •
Soil •
Farming •
Population Dynamics •
Early Holocene •
Norse •
Bronze Age •
Ireland
Geographic Keywords
Europe
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- Adaptive Cycles and Resilience as explanatory templates for the formulation of coupled climate-culture models (2016)
- Climate change and societal change in the western Mediterranean area 4.2 ka BP (2016)
- Exploring the Late Prehistoric (8000-2400 BC) human-environment interaction in the Western Taurus Mountains, SW Turkey (2016)
- Increasing the resolution from climate change to weather events: understanding past land-use management on the Svalbarð estate, North East Iceland. (2016)
- Macrophysical Climate Model and Comparisons with the Proxy-Based Paleoclimate Reconstruction in Central Anatolian Plain between 14000 and 7000 cal. BP (2016)
- Population dynamics and the 5.9 ka event: a methodology for relating climate change and demography in Eneolithic Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine (2016)
- Rapid climate change and demographic decline at the end of the Irish Bronze Age (2016)