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SUMMARY:Moments of crisis – volcanic eruptions\, environmental impacts a
 nd societal change in the northern European past - Prof. Felix Riede\, Aar
 hus University 
DTSTART:20190415T163000Z
DTEND:20190415T173000Z
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CONTACT:Céline Marie Vidal
DESCRIPTION:Richard Tipping and colleagues noted in 2012 that major societ
 al transformations in Scottish prehistory can be seen as 'moments of crisi
 s' precipitated by climate change. May such moments crisis have been more 
 widespread in the past? In my lecture\, I will build on this suggestion an
 d focus on three such pivotal moments in the northern European past\, from
  the deep time of the Late Pleistocene – the Laacher See eruption of 13\
 ,000 years ago – to the second millennium BCE – the Thera and/or Aniak
 chak eruptions of 3600 years ago – to the not at all so distant 6th cent
 ury CE with its series of multiple compounding eruption events. I thus pre
 sent three cases\, one each from the Stone\, Bronze and Iron Ages\, where 
 distant volcanic eruptions are implicated in societal change through their
  impacts on past lives and livelihoods. Finally\, I place the study of suc
 h ancient calamities and the societal transformations they may have been i
 nvolved in in a wider perspective that articulates with our contemporary p
 redicaments of climate change and the societal challenges it poses.
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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