Historia Lectures 2026

13 January 2026 - Studying Climate Change in the Past | Andrew McNey

 

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Reading List

Bar-Oz, Guy, Lior Weissbrod, Tali Erickson-Gini, et al. ‘Ancient Trash Mounds Unravel Urban Collapse a Century before the End of Byzantine Hegemony in the Southern Levant’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 17 (2019): 8239–48. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900233116.

Büntgen, Ulf, Vladimir S. Myglan, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, et al. ‘Cooling and Societal Change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD’. Nature Geoscience 9, no. 3 (2016): 231–36. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2652.

Erdkamp, Paul. ‘A Historian’s Introduction to Palaeoclimatology’. In Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East: Diversity in Collapse and Resilience, edited by Paul Erdkamp, Joseph G. Manning, and Koenraad Verboven. Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81103-7.

Fuks, Daniel, Guy Bar-Oz, Yotam Tepper, et al. ‘The Rise and Fall of Viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands Reconstructed from Archaeobotanical and Ceramic Data’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 33 (2020): 19780–91. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922200117.

Lantos, Sára, Guy Bar-Oz, and Gil Gambash. ‘Wine from the Desert: Late-Antique Negev Viniculture and the Famous Gaza Wine’. Near Eastern Archaeology 83, no. 1 (2020): 56–64. https://doi.org/10.1086/707483.


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