Archive for July 2011
Special Issue of Osiris on Climate
The latest issue of Osiris, the journal of the History of Science Society, is a special issue dedicated to climate, edited by James Fleming and Vladomir Jankovic, including articles by Gregory Cushman, Markey Carey, and others.
New Study Linking Collapse of Egypt’s Old Kingdom to Drought
A new study of sediments in Lake Tana (published in Global and Planetary Change and reported on the Archaeology News Network) indicates a period of major drought and low Nile floods around 2200BC coinciding with the collapse of Egypt’s Old Kingdom. This research helps confirm previous studies revealing widespread drought and political crisis across the Near East in the 23rd-22nd century BC.
