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Ancient dirty dishes may be misleading archaeologists and rewriting history
Learn more about oil residue left over on ancient "dirty dishes" and what they can tell us about ancient olive oil production ...
Climate‑driven shifts due to volcanic activity, and the increase in grain trade helped bring the Black Death to Italian ports ...
(THE CONVERSATION) We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems that refuse to go away: the refugee crisis; terrorism; rising sea levels; frequent floods, droughts and wildfires; not to mention ...
A sudden climate jolt disrupted harvests and trade, setting in motion the grain routes that helped carry plague into Europe.
In the Middle Ages, the Black Death burst onto the scene, with the first historically documented outbreak occurring in 1346 ...
New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...
New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...
A new study shows that during drought, it's not how hot or how dry it is that determines gas emissions from plants—but how quickly conditions change. This discovery reshapes our understanding of the ...
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