What connects a series of volcanic eruptions and severe summer cooling with a century of pandemics, human migration and the rise and fall of civilisations? Tree rings, says Ulf B眉ntgen, who leads Cambridge鈥檚 first dedicated tree-ring laboratory in the Department of Geography.
What connects a series of volcanic eruptions and severe summer cooling with a century of pandemics, human migration and the rise and fall of civilisations? Tree rings, says Ulf B眉ntgen, who leads Cambridge鈥檚 first dedicated tree-ring laboratory in the Department of Geography.
Once you embark on these integrative approaches you can ask questions like how did complex societies cope with climate change? That鈥檚 when it starts to get really exciting.
Ulf B眉ntgen
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