A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

This article evaluates 165 studies from various disciplines, published between 2000 and
2019, which in different ways link past climate variability and change to human history in …

Evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important
record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data …

Scholars in many disciplines have used diverse methods and sources to establish that,
between the 15th and 18th centuries, a “Little Ice Age” considerably cooled Earth's climate …

Names: Pauketat, Timothy R., editor.| Alt, Susan M., 1959–editor. Title: New materialisms
ancient urbanisms/edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt. Description: Abingdon …

Private diaries constitute a unique set of materials within climate change research in that
they provide information both on past climate variability and on the ways that people live …

Ships' logbooks have been preserved in archives of different European countries. This
paper reviews how their records provide reliable information relevant to meteorology and …

Historiography has paid insufficient attention to the influence of winds and currents. The rise
of Western European states to global dominance and world empires from the sixteenth …

Historical data sources are used by a wide variety of disciplines, but rarely do they look
outside their particular research fields at how others are using and applying historical data …