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DESCRIPTION:Paleo to the People: New data and novel questions challenge con
 ventional historical narratives of past societies and climate.&nbsp\;This 
 will be the annual Meinig Undergraduate Lecture\, with guest speaker Amy H
 essl\, Professor\, Department of Geography at West Virginia University.&nb
 sp\;&nbsp\;In the last few decades\, paleoclimatology has made fundamental
  contributions to the study of past climate and has been instrumental in b
 ench-marking anthropogenic climate change.&nbsp\; While paleoclimatology h
 as long been applied to the study of complex societies\, the emphasis has 
 largely been focused on extreme climate and societal collapse\, leaving ma
 ny other possible responses and interactions of past societies to environm
 ental extremes understudied.&nbsp\; Diverse historical narratives of socio
 -ecological change resonate with the public and expand the dialogue about 
 climate change beyond environmental effects to social and cultural vulnera
 bilities and consequences. In this talk I explore two case studies that de
 monstrate how new questions and new data sources expand our understanding 
 of past climate and society beyond collapse. First\, I review work on how 
 two Asian steppe empires\, the Uyghur and the Mongol\, survived\, and in s
 ome instances thrived\, under extreme drought and moisture anomalies. Seco
 nd\, I describe how a new paleoenvironmental data source – historic log bu
 ildings – allow us to evaluate the extent and ecological impact of land ab
 andonment by Indigenous Peoples of eastern North America following Europea
 n contact.&nbsp\; In both cases\, paleo data challenge conventional histor
 ical wisdom and yield novel examples of socio-environmental interactions t
 hat can inform our current response to the climate crisis.For more informa
 tion\, and for accessibility and accommodations requests\, please contact 
 Sarah Kondrk at sjkondrk@syr.edu or call the Geography office at 315.443.2
 605.Sponsored by the Geography Department. &nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Paleo to the People: New data and novel questions challenge convent
 ional historical narratives of past societies and climate
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>Paleo to the People: New data and n
 ovel questions challenge conventional historical narratives of past societ
 ies and climate.&nbsp\;</strong><br>This will be the annual Meinig Undergr
 aduate Lecture\, with guest speaker <strong>Amy Hessl</strong>\, Professor
 \, Department of Geography at West Virginia University.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<br>I
 n the last few decades\, paleoclimatology has made fundamental contributio
 ns to the study of past climate and has been instrumental in bench-marking
  anthropogenic climate change.&nbsp\; While paleoclimatology has long been
  applied to the study of complex societies\, the emphasis has largely been
  focused on extreme climate and societal collapse\, leaving many other pos
 sible responses and interactions of past societies to environmental extrem
 es understudied.&nbsp\; Diverse historical narratives of socio-ecological 
 change resonate with the public and expand the dialogue about climate chan
 ge beyond environmental effects to social and cultural vulnerabilities and
  consequences. In this talk I explore two case studies that demonstrate ho
 w new questions and new data sources expand our understanding of past clim
 ate and society beyond collapse. First\, I review work on how two Asian st
 eppe empires\, the Uyghur and the Mongol\, survived\, and in some instance
 s thrived\, under extreme drought and moisture anomalies. Second\, I descr
 ibe how a new paleoenvironmental data source – historic log buildings – al
 low us to evaluate the extent and ecological impact of land abandonment by
  Indigenous Peoples of eastern North America following European contact.&n
 bsp\; In both cases\, paleo data challenge conventional historical wisdom 
 and yield novel examples of socio-environmental interactions that can info
 rm our current response to the climate crisis.</p><p><br></p><p><em>For mo
 re information\, and for accessibility and accommodations requests\, pleas
 e contact Sarah Kondrk at sjkondrk@syr.edu or call the Geography office at
  315.443.2605.</em><br>Sponsored by the Geography Department. &nbsp\;<br><
 /p>
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