S.T. Hussain and F. Reide’s new article in WIREs Climate Change outlines the potential benefits of using archaeological evidence to investigate what the authors call paleoenvironmental humanities. Archaeological records contain lengthy chronologies of human-environmental interactions and can provide a wealth of information about how humans have adapted to changing or difficult conditions in the past. They point in particular to the paleolithic era, comprising thousands of years and dramatic fluctuations in the climate systems. The authors also argue that these narratives are useful for critiquing narratives of climate determination or irrelevance in the present. Read the full article here.
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