Past Talks
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David Kaniewski (Toulouse) presents new climate proxy data relevant to the understanding of the so-called Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean 3200 years ago. This is a much discussed topic, especially among Bronze Age Archaeologists and social theorists.
In this lecture at the Yale Nile Initiative lecture series held at Yale University, Neal Spencer, Keeper in the Department of Egypt and Nubian antiquities, explores the intentions of the New Kingdom Egyptian state in creating riparian towns along the Nubian Nile, the realities of their distinctive trajectories, and the evidence for local agency, the role of the changing Nile within that time frame, and how inhabitants coped, or sought to cope, with these climatic changes.
Joe McConnell, Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute, Reno, surveys the latest research in ice core research and methods, and how results from ice core Geochemistry provides new and exciting information for ancient historians. Emphasis is placed on his recent work on lead isotopes in Greenland ice and its value for the Roman economy.