What's on archive 2012

Seminar: When the Nile Ran Dry

27 Jan 2012, 17:15-18:15, Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29), King's Building, Strand Campus

Event series: Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group Seminars
School / area: Social Science & Public Policy
Department: Geography
Location: Strand Campus
Location map: Strand: detail
Speaker: Professor Mark Macklin
Speaker institution: Aberystwyth University

The relationship between environmental change and the great hydraulic civilizations of the world has attracted enormous interest recently – yet none of the published literature has presented fully-integrated, robustly-dated archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets. This lecture presents results from a 15 year interdisciplinary project in the Sahara on the banks of the Nile in Northern Sudan that has chronicled the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Kerma (2400-1450 BC), Sub-Saharan Africa’s first urban civilisation. The major conclusion of our study is that existing models of the relationship between climate, river system change, and hydraulic civilization ‘collapse’ need to be re-evaluated.

Contact name: Faith Taylor
Email: faith.taylor@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: N/A

 

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