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20,000 years of impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: case studies from the Near East

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 1.00PM to 2.00pm

Speaker(s): Matthew Jones (University of Nottingham)

People have a long and complex relationship with the environments they live in and issues such as resource availability and sustainability are far from new.

This seminar uses case studies from Jordan, Iran and Turkey to investigate human-climate-environment relationships through the last 20,000 years.

Working on or near archaeological sites, local environmental reconstructions, particularly of water availability, inform regional models of human adaptation to climate change e.g. during the beginnings of agriculture, and allow the assessment of people’s impact on the environment over millennia.


Undergraduates and postgraduates are particularly encouraged to attend, as these seminars can provide exposure to a wide range of ideas and research areas that you might not otherwise have an opportunity to learn about.

The seminars are held on Tuesday at 1:00pm, in B/B/002 (Biology Department, unless otherwise stated).

Presentations usually last for 45 minutes, followed by a lively discussion.

Please contact the seminar series co-ordinator, Kathryn Arnold (kathryn.arnold@york.ac.uk), for further information.

Location: Biology, B/B/002

Admission: Open to all