History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change
John Haldon|Lee Mordechai|Timothy P. Newfield|Arlen F. Chase|Adam Izdebski|Piotr Guzowski|Inga Labuhn|Neil Roberts
History and archaeology have a well-established engagement with issues of premodern societal development the interaction between physical cultural environments; together, they offer holistic view that can generate insights into nature resilience adaptation, as well responses to catastrophe. Grasping challenges climate change presents evolving appropriate policies promote support mitigation adaptation requires not only an understanding science contemporary politics, but also history societies affected in particular their logic. But whereas archaeologists developed productive links paleosciences, historians have, on whole, remained muted voices debate until recently. Here, we suggest several ways which consilience historical sciences natural sciences, including attention even distant pasts, deepen environmental its effects human societies.
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