PC5 | Learning from the ancients: journeys, giants and calcium build-up
Learning from the ancients: journeys, giants and calcium build-up
Convener: Hazel GibsonECSECS
Tue, 16 Apr, 15:30–16:30 (CEST)
 
Press centre
Tue, 15:30
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Traces of past human settlements and dispersal patterns are only rare if one does not know where to find them. In this press conference, scientists reveal a wide variety of newly uncovered traces, ranging from huge erratic boulders in the young glacial area of Poland, limescale in ancient Roman aqueducts, to the evidence carried by tiny pollen grains and even tinier cosmogenic nuclides. With this data, we gain new insight into geoscience influenced myths of frost giants, the pathways of Greek nomads and human dispersal patterns across Eurasia, and how water resource management and adaptations to climate crises were a problem for ancient settlements too.

Participants:

Adam Izdebski
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Germany

Gül Sürmelihindi
University of Mainz, Germany

John D. Jansen
GFÚ Institute of Geophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia

Robert Piotrowski
Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

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