Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series
"Migration and Population Change at Cahokia in the Context of Climate Change and Ecological Disasters" By Dr. Sissel Schroeder, Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison
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Date
Friday, February 28, 2020
Time
12-1 p.m.
Location
Description
Sociopolitical, economic, and climatological aspects of the population history of Cahokia are compared with the timing of the appearance of Cahokia materials at hinterland sites to better understand some of the factors that may have contributed to the migration of people out of the American Bottom. Paleoenvironmental proxies from sediment cores from Horseshoe Lake, Illinois, are integrated with fecal stanol data to investigate the relationships among ecological disasters, climate change, and po
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Free
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