Climate and Ancient Societies Conference

We are pleased to announce that the Conference about Climate and
Ancient Societies will be held between 21- 23 October 2009 in
Copenhagen, organised by the Carsten Niebuhr Section of the Institute
for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS).

• Climate and Ancient Societies
• Causes and human responses
• The Stine Rossel Memorial Conference

Climate, and human responses to it, plays an integral part in the
formation of society. Thus when climate change occurs, the result of
either natural or human causes, societies should react and adapt – but
do they? If so, what is the nature of that change, and are the
responses positive or negative for the long-term survival of societies
and their peoples? Archaeology, steeped in interdisciplinary studies
and dealing with a longue durée view of society, offers detailed and
verifiable insights into climate changes in the past: causes,
responses and consequences. This conference, held under the umbrella
of the University of Copenhagen’s Climate and Sustainability
initiative (<http://climate. ku.dk/>), is held in memory of Stine Rossel,
archaeozoologist and member of the Department of Cross Cultural &
Regional Studies, who had a keen research interest in climate and past
societies.

The four main themes of the conference will be:

1. Holocene Climate Reconstruction
2. Responses of Complex Societies to Climatic Variation
3. Archaeological Evidence for Pollution and its Ecological Implications
4. Stable Isotope Analysis in the Middle East

Keynote speakers are: Richard Meadow, Nanna Noe-Nygaard, Neil Roberts,
and Jason Ur.

Invited speakers are: Abdulla Al-Shorman, Mira Bar-Matthews, Fiona
Marshall, and Harvey Weiss.

For abstracts of these and ca. 30 other speakers and for further
information please visit:
www.climate. ku.dk/CAS

Organising committee:
Pernille Bangsgaard Jensen, Mette Marie Hald, Susanne Kerner, Marie
Lind-Bjerregaard, Alan Walmsley (University of Copenhagen), Richard
Meadow, Nanna Noe-Nygaard, Neil Roberts, and Jason Ur (keynote
speakers).

 

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