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Graduate Student, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
PhD student in geographical sciences
Thesis Title: Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary trajectories in central Turkey
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Neil Roberts
Ralph Fyfe |
About
Annually laminated lake sediments (varves) offer excellent, high-resolution archives for investigating Holocene climate variability (Berglund 2002). Variations in the amplitude and frequency of past climatic variability are expressed as changes in varve thickness which can be observed in fine detail and with strict chronological control (Brauer et al 2009). The quality and detail of this temporal constraint allows for linking of these records of climate variability with records of past socio-economic and political change (Berglund 2003). Nar crater-lake, Cappodocia, Turkey has previously provided well documented annually deposited archives of climate variability for the late Holocene. My project will extend this record to develop an important long-term high-resolution record of palaeoclimate from geochemistry data. Such palaeoclimatic data compared with periods of human development in Turkey will develop new ideas relating to the complexity of cultural/climatic interactions of ancient Anatolia.
A key focus of this work will be on periods of stability and instability in climate and how these periods were experienced by different societies and social structures. Through introducing themes like resilience, vulnerability and adaptability into climate-culture studies, research seeks to bring to light new ways of understanding how people may have responded to climate within individual lifetimes. This project will ultimately express the dialectical relationship between the humanistic and natural worlds as a spectrum and not an either/or dichotomy. Combining information from the palaeolimnological and archaeological communities is a development in methodology that offers benefits for understanding regional historic developments. Whilst there are many scholars who participate fully in the methods and concerns of both disciplines within Turkey (e.g. Turner et al 2010; Woldring & Bottema 2002) neither field have sought to narrow the division between the climatic and archaeological understanding of change.
Contact Information
| Address: | School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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01752 585923 |
