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4th
International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Berlin,
March 29-April 3, 2004
Workshop
"Paleoclimate
Proxy Data for
Holocene
East Mediterranean and West Asia"
View
map of paleoclimate sites and bibliography
This workshop aims to synthesize the proxy data retrieved from ice, lake,
marine and speleothem cores across West Asia and adjacent regions (see
attached figure) to establish coherent (in-phase) and synoptic (simultaneous)
sequences of natural Holocene climate stages and abrupt events defined
by their precipitation, temperature, seasonality, and other qualities.
This synthesis may provide a base-line for building regional prehistoric
and ancient agro-production functions and for distinguishing anthropogenic
from natural environmental alterations during the period 11.5 – 2 kaBP.
- Miriam Bar-Matthews, Jerusalem
- Utz Böhner, Hannover
- Stephen Burns, UMass, Amherst
- Mauro Cremaschi, Milan
- Françoise Gasse,
CNRS
- Stefan Kröpelin, Köln
- Mike Krum, Leeds
- Catherine Kuzuçuöğlü,
CNRS
- Anne Muller, Magdeburg
- Antje Schwalb, Braunschweig
- Mike Staubwasser, Oxford
- Lonnie Thompson, OSU
- Elise van Campo, CNRS
- Harvey Weiss, Yale
- Bernhard Weninger, Köln
- Lucia Wick, Zurich
- Kathy Willis, Oxford
- Yoshinori Yasuda, Kyoto
Papers to be presented and
discussed will focus upon individual proxy records and archives, the quantification
of proxy values and the precise dating which permits measures of coherent
and synoptic regional climate.
Day 1: 4 hours, 8 papers
Day 2: 4 hours, 8 papers
Day 1 and Day 2 will be hosted
by the 4th ICAANE at Freie Universität Berlin. Day 1 and
Day 2 evening dinner discussions will initiate regional syntheses and
research frontiers. A draft synthesis will be presented to the ICAANE
general meeting.
Participants can register at
http://www.ctw-congress.de/4icaane/04_geninfo.html
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Please submit paper title and
abstract to ICAANE
(http://www.ctw-congress.de/4icaane/05_abstracts.html )
and to harvey.weiss@yale.edu
prior to December 15, 2003.
The workshop’s contributions
and syntheses will be published in 2005. Additional participants welcome.
For more information contact:
Professor Harvey Weiss
Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y
New Haven CT 06520 - 8236
harvey.weiss@yale.edu
Select
here for information on the Milutin Milankovitch Anniversary Symposium:
PALEOCLIMATE AND THE EARTH CLIMATE SYSTEM
Belgrade, Serbia, 30 August - 2 September 2004
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