A new Stonehenge feces study has revealed new dietary data about the Stonehenge builders’ diet through the presence of parasite eggs from undercooked foods.
Research highlights importance of social resilience in Bronze Age China
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February 26, 2021 SHARE
Climate alone is not a driver for human behavior. The choices that people make in the face of changing conditions take place in a larger human context. And studies that combine insights from archaeologists and environmental scientists can offer more nuanced lessons about how people have responded sometimes successfully to long-term environmental changes.
One such study, from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shows that aridification in the central plains of China during the early Bronze Age did not cause population collapse, a result that highlights the importance of social resilience to climate change.