International Symposium by Echohistory Program of
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
“Rethinking the Impacts of Climate Change in the Past”

Date & time:	20 August, 2010, 13:30 - 21 August, 2010, 9:30 -
Venue:	Lecture Hall, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature ( Access)
Title:	"Rethinking the Impacts of Climate Change in the Past"
Language:	English
Remarks:	Handbill (PDF: 711KB)

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20, August (Fri)
13:00-13:10	Greeting Narifumi TACHIMOTO (Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature)
13:10-13:55	“The Mesopotamian Response to Climate Change: Collapse as Adaptation” Lauren RISTVET (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania)
13:55-14:40	“Diet and Climatic Shifts: Their Interrelationship During the Indus Civilization” Steven A. WEBER (Visiting Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Associate Professor, Washington State University）
14:40-15:25	“The Importance of Small Scale Approach to Understand Environmental Change, Landscape and Resource Exploitation: The Example of Holocene North Gujarat (India)” Marco MADELLA (Visiting Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Research Professor, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA))
Coffee Break (15 minutes)
15:40-16:25	“Changing Agricultural Strategies in Relation Tosocial and Environmental Changes at Harappan Kanmer, Kachchh, Gujarat” Anil K. POKHARIA (Visiting Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Scientist-Archaeobotany Division, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany）
16:25-17:10	“Investigating the Interplay between Climate Change and Culture-history among Hunter-gatherer Societies at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in Northern Eurasia” Peter JORDAN (Visiting Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen）
21, August (Sat)
9:30-10:15	“Challenge of High-Resolution Paleoclimatology: its Potential Impacts for Understanding of Relationships between Climate and Societies” Takeshi NAKATSUKA (Professor, Nagoya University)
10:15-11:00	“Climate Change, Subsistence Intensification, and Human Impacts on the Jomon Landscape” Junko HABU (Visiting Research Fellow, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Associate Professor, University of California）
11:00-11:45	“Environment and Socio-Cultural Changes in the Prehistory of Okinawa” Hiroto TAKAMIYA (Professor, Sapporo university)
Lunch (1 hour 15 minutes)
13:00-14:30	Discussion