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Historical Ice Core Project

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With generous support from: In 2013, a joint venture of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and the SoHP retrieved a 73-meter (240ft) ice core from the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle, located in the Monte Rosa Massif of the Swiss Alps...

Historical Ice Core Project Publications

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2022 “Climate Change Around the Turn of the Millennium,” in L’Eurasie autour de l’an 1000. Cultures, religions et sociétés d’un monde en développement, eds. D. Barthélemy, F. Grenet et C. Morrisson, Paris, 2022 (Centre de recherche d’Histoire et...

The Lead Summit at Harvard: Revolutionary Discoveries in Lead Pollution and Health Impacts

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Amidst the news of continuing lead pollution crises, foremost researchers in this field will present new, groundbreaking and alarming data on the effects of long-term lead pollution, renewing the call to eliminate lead from our cities, homes and the...

SoHP Lecture: Gideon Avni on "'An Early Islamic Agricultural Revolution?' New Light on the Transformation of Agricultural and Irrigation Technologies in the late Roman and Islamic Near East"

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As part of the SoHP "What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire" Lecture Series, Dr. Gideon Avni, Head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, will speak at...

Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean (MHAAM) Inaugural Public Workshop

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Under the auspices of the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, we are launching an exciting new virtual Research Center at Harvard and Jena: The Max Planck...

Inventing a New Discipline: SoHP and MHAAM Annual Bulletin

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For a recent panorama of our work, see the latest SoHP/MHAAM bulletin below.

Prof. Jakub Kabal Workshop on computational Philology

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"Printing, Parchment, and Protein: The Bioarcheology of Harvard’s Books on Skin" | Stephen J. Milner

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Stephen J. Milner, University of Manchester

"From mines to cash: tracing the sources of coined metal 4th-10th c. AD and beyond."

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Presenter: Cécile Morrisson, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Dumbarton Oaks

Australia's Deep Human Past in the Context of Global History

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Climate, Pollution and Economic Growth in Human History: New results from the Historical Ice Core Project

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Stunning recent results from our collaboration with the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine, reveal new evidence about our human past sealed within the Colle Gnifetti ice core. A groundbreaking new, open-access article in Antiquity, sheds...

Lecture Series: What's New in the Fall of the Roman Empire

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Professor Kyle Harper, University of Oklahoma “Nature Did It: Romans, Ecology and the Global History of Infectious Disease”