[Sci-tech-public] MIT Seminar in Environmental and Agricultural History, FRIDAY 2-23-07

[Margo Collett]

MIT Seminar on Environmental
and Agricultural History

"In Cod We Trust:  Fishing, Subsistence Agriculture, and Climate Change,
c. AD 900 to 1400"

Brian Fagan
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,
University of California, Santa Barbara


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.

Friday, February 23, 2007
2:30 to 4:30 PM
Building E51 Room 095

Sponsored by MIT's History Faculty and the Program in Science, 
Technology, and Society
For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact 
Margo Collett at <file:///mailto:mcollet@mit.edu>mcollett at mit.edu
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