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<div align="center"><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental <br>
and Agricultural History<br>
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<i>“In Cod We Trust: Fishing, Subsistence Agriculture, and Climate
Change,<br>
c. AD 900 to 1400”<br><br>
</i>Brian Fagan<br>
</b>Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,<br>
University of California, Santa Barbara<br>
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Twelve hundred years ago, Medieval Europe was a continent of subsistence
farmers, who lived from harvest to harvest. Archaeologist Brian Fagan
examines a new generation of climatological evidence which provides an
environmental context for the population growth and widespread
deforestation that marked the turn of the millennium. This expansion took
place during the so-called Medieval Warm Period. Did such a climatic
event actually occur and what does it tell us about modern-day global
warming (if anything)? As part of this story, Fagan also examines the
explosion in the medieval cod and herring industry brought about by
military commissariats and Christian doctrine.<br>
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Friday, February 23, 2007<br>
2:30 to 4:30 PM<br>
Building E51 Room 095<br>
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Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society<br>
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Margo Collett at
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