March 19 Talk - "Climate Change and Resilience in Medieval Anatolia"

Join the Edmonton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the University of Alberta Department of History, Classics, and Religion for the AIA's George H. Forsyth, Jr. Memorial Lecture. "Climate Change and Resilience in Medieval Anatolia", a talk by Dr. Marica Cassis (University of Calgary), will take place on Thursday, March 19 at 4:00 p.m. in Business Building 2-09.

What does climate resilience mean in the context of the Late Roman and Medieval World of Anatolia? Current excavations at the site of Çadır Höyük in Yozgat province, central Türkiye provide insight into how communities adapted and changed in response to a variety of climate and social changes over the course of these periods. In examining this evolution, we gain a greater sense of how medieval society made sense of their changing environmental conditions through changes to their physical environments and their use of natural resources.