Session OSM 09
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Climate Impact on Human Evolution and Civilizations
Convenors
Mark Maslin, Dhananjay A. Sant, Martin Ziegler
Description
Within this session we would like to discuss the response of hominins and modern humans to past continental climatic changes on orbital to decadal timescales from the Pliocene to the Anthropocene. This includes a broad perspective on the evolution of early hominins, the role of climate in the origin of our species, human cultural roots and their dispersal patterns, impact of climate on the rise and fall of civilizations and the origins of human impacts on the planet.
Talks and Posters
Talks
Saturday, 16 February 09:00 - 10:30
Chair: Dhananjay A. Sant, Martin Ziegler
09:00 - 09-15
Early human speciation, migration and brain expansion driven by African climate pulses
Mark Maslin, Susanne Shultz
09:15 - 09-30
Variable Impact of climate change on populations of archaic humans and modern humans inferred from archaeological evidence
Sheila Mishra, Navin Chauhan, Ashok Singhvi
09:30 - 09:45
Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate and seasonality in North Africa from δ18O, δ13C and Mg/Ca analysis of marine and terrestrial mollusc shells (Haua Fteah, Libya)
Amy Prendergast, Rhiannon Stevens, Tamsin O'Connell, Chris Hunt, Graeme Barker
09:45 - 10:00
Integration of regionally resolved decline models for the Indus Valley Culture
Carsten Lemmen, Aurangzeb Khan
10:00 - 10:15
Central American rainfall changes over the past ka and implications on the Classic Maya society
Sebastian Breitenbach, Douglas Kennett, Valorie Aquino, Yemane Asmerom, Jaime Awe, James Baldini, Patrick Bartlein, Brendan Culleton, Claire Ebert, Christopher Jazwa, Martha Macri, Norbert Marwan, Victor Polyak, Keith Prufer, Harriet Ridley, Harald Sodemann0, Bruce Winterhalder, Gerald Haug
10:15 - 10:30
Medieval climate change and the end of the Norse settlements in Greenland
Sofia Ribeiro, Antoon Kuijpers, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Naja Mikkelsen
Posters
Display: Friday, 15 February and Saturday, 16 February
Author attendance: Saturday 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Dhananjay A. Sant, Martin Ziegler
Assessing impacts of climate variability on the demography of pre-Hispanic societies from the Atacama Desert over the past three millennia
Eugenia Gayo, Claudio Latorre, Calogero Santoro
Climate change and the Plague of Justinian
Neil Roberts, Matthew Jones, Warren Eastwood, Jessie Woodbridge, Samantha Allcock, Jonathan Dean
Correlation between the climatic and geological events and changing of archaeological cultures in SE Altai (Russia) during the Late Holocene
Anna Agatova, Roman Nepop, Igor Sljusarenko, Vladimir Myglan, Valentin Barinov, Andrey Nazarov
Dating the earliest human occupation of Western Europe: new evidences from the fluvial terraces system of the Somme basin (North France)
Pierre Antoine, Nicole Limondin Lozouet, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Jean-Luc Locht, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Pierre Voinchet, Patrick Auguste
Development of modern human behaviour linked to rapid climate change
Martin Ziegler, Margit Simon, Ian R. Hall, Stephen Barker, Chris Stringer, Rainer Zahn
Evidence of Human-Animal-Climate interaction in Lower reaches of Narmada Valley, Western India
Dhananjay Sant, K Krishnan, Vijay Sathe, S. N. Rajaguru, Prabhin Sukumaran, Parth Chauhan
Examining the relationships between Holocene climate change, hydrology and human society in Ireland
Philip Stastney
History of climate: 2000 Leagues overseas
Alain Gioda, Mike Baker
Human responses to monsoon variability in South East Asia: Cambodian pre-Angkor and Angkor periods
Naoko Nagumo, Toshihiko Sugai, Sumiko Kubo
Impacts of climate variability and Maya settlement on laguna Tuspán (Petén, Guatemala) during the past 5000 years
Sophie Fleury, Bruno Malaizé, Philippe Martinez, Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles, Jacques Giraudeau, Didier Galop, Alexandre Torneberg, Kees Nooren, Karine Charlier, Pierre Carbonel, Marie-Charlotte Arnauld
Megalake Chad occurrences in the Pliocene: an insight into early hominid environment
Camille Contoux, Gilles Ramstein, Anne Jost, Mathieu Schuster, Pierre Sepulchre, Pascale Braconnot
Mineral Magnetic studies to indicate Paleo-anthropogenic loading of particulate matters in the Mumbai and Delhi metropolitan regions
Swapnil Guadadhe, Satish Sangode, Shiva Kumar Patil, Dilip Chate, Dhananjay Meshram
Modeling and simulation of Holocene hunter-gatherer and agro-pastoral groups to explore the role of climate in population behaviour
Marco Madella, Andrea Balbo, Carla Lancelotti, Bernardo Rondelli, Xavi Rubio, Alexis Torrano, Matthieu Salpeteur, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, P. Ajithprasad, Andreas Angourakis
On the sensitivity of the simulated European Neolithic transition to climate extremes
Carsten Lemmen, Kai W Wirtz
Peat in the desert: a local environmental history for the Holocene in semi-arid Jordan, and its comparison to the evolution of societies
Claire Rambeau
Recent climate change in West Africa and adaptation strategies proposed by rural population
Timothee Ourbak, Benoit Sarr
Regime shifts in past ecosystems of maar lakes: lessons for building ecological resilience to future climate change
Giri Kattel, Frank Sirocko, Paul Augustinus
Regional integration of lake sediment and archaeological archives: Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary pathways in Cappadocia, central Anatolia
Samantha Allcock
The effect of late Holocene precipitation changes on natural resources and human society in northern Europe
Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, Melanie Leng,
The impact of environmental change on past human societies in the Central Peloponnese (Greece)
Ingmar Unkel, Helmut Brückner, Walter Dörfler, Timothy Filley, Jeannette Forsén, Christian Heymann, Haydn Murray, Oliver Nelle, Arndt Schimmelmann, Christine Shriner, Helen Zagana
