Cecile Blanchet, “Out of the Green Sahara: Environment, Climate and the Humans in the Nile Valley During the Holocene” (Yale Nile Initiative Lecture Series)

Event time: 
Monday, April 23, 2018 - 4:00pm
Location: 
KGL Auditorium See map
Event description: 

This series, the first in an ongoing series of lectures on the connection between environment, climate, climate change and history, brings together some of the leading scholars in the world who work at this nexus in the Nile river basin. The series explores recent developments in the archaeology and climate history of the Nile river, settlement patterns, the connections between the Sahara and the Nile valley, fluvial geomorphology and the history of water in the Nile river and the interpretation of new paleoclimate proxy records.