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SUMMARY:Geoarchaeological evidence for climate change in Ancient Egypt - J
 udith Bunbury - Department of Earth Sciences
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CONTACT:Lucas Measures
DESCRIPTION: Over the past few decades\, geologists have become regular co
 ntributors to archaeological digs. In Egypt\, these explorations have prov
 ed a prospecting tool for ancient burials\, and a useful insight to the hi
 nterlands of many sites. By tessellation of results from many sites\, we s
 tart to see a pattern of landscape change\, itself driven by climate fluct
 uations. In the early Holocene\, population was spread across the many lak
 es of the Saharan region but\, as these dried out\, they migrated into the
  Nile valley and started a process of ‘niche construction’\, through i
 rrigation and agriculture. In the process\, humans started to divert and c
 ontrol the natural meandering of the Nile\, devising methods to manage the
  climate-controlled fluctuations of the annual flood. Recent research sugg
 ests that\, during periods of global warming\, rainfall increased again in
  the Sahara and that the inhabitants returned to the desert\, from the val
 ley. Current research aims to inform the climate models by providing detai
 led analysis of ancient ecosystems.
LOCATION: Harker 1\, Department of Earth Sciences\, Downing Street
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