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Climates of History, Histories of Climate: From History to Archaeoscience

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The new scientific climate history is about more than just the history of climate. It is developing in a new climate of history; it forms one of several leading edges in archaeoscience, the broader transdisciplinary convergence that brings the power of science to bear on the human past. Along with the emergence of archaeogenetics, biomolecular archaeology, and digital humanities—such as geographical information systems (gis) and computational philology (quantitative studies of textual authorship)—climate history is in the process of achieving the long-imagined re-unification of the sciences and the humanities as it unveils historical changes in the environment.

Source: The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

DOI: 10.1162/jinh_a_01374

Author: Michael McCormick

Institutions: Harvard University, Max Planck - Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2945051509

FWCI: 2.287

Cites: 98

Cited by: 26

Related to: 10