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.
A video on the decreasing rainfall trend in the wettest place on Earth.
Until a few decades ago, Cherrapunji, in Meghalaya was the wettest place on earth. However, Mawsynram, also a town in the same state, recently surpassed Cherrapunji in this feat. A recent study, published in Environmental Research Letters, looked at the rainfall pattern in the past 119 years. The researchers found a decreasing trend at Cherrapunji and nearby areas.
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