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Archaeology provides an ideal tool for examining the long-term dynamic relationship between people and their environment.
Alexia Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Unversity of Connecticut
Archaeology provides an ideal tool for examining the long-term dynamic relationship between people and their environment. This talk presents how archaeologists reconstruct ancient methods of food production and climate change, providing examples from sites in Northern Mesopotamia. Lessons learned from studies of ancient agriculture are applied and used to consider issues of sustainability and the role that climate change played in collapse of the Akkadian Empire at the end of the 3rd Millennium B.C.
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.