Surviving Climate Change

Summary

During the past decade, the University of Cincinnati has offered a summer archaeological field school, which focuses on periods of rapid and profound global climatic change. Students undertake detailed excavation profile descriptions, collect samples for AMS radiocarbon and OSL dating, botanical, faunal, soil, and geochemical analyses to develop an accurate chronology and paleoenvironmental framework of the depositional history for archaeological sites, which date to the Younger Dryas and Little Ice Age. From an evolutionary perspective, these are significant periods of change, which force people to economically adapt, downsize, or migrate. Data collected during these field schools have been published in co-authored articles in the journals Nature, PNAS, Quaternary Research, and American Antiquity.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 20660