CO2 concentration and global temperature in the common era. The correlation was physically understood and predicted correctly before it was observed in data. Nobel Laureate Svante Arrhenius first computed the effect of CO2 doubling on global temperature in 1896! It’s physics.

📢 Join us this Wednesday for a #lecture by Dr. Sadi Maréchal (Ghent University)! Explore rural stone buildings in Gallia Belgica & Germania Inferior and discover how local traditions blended with Mediterranean influences. 🕕 18 Dec, 6:15 PM 🔗 bit.ly/3ZGN5H0

Thanks to all my colleagues who contributed to this project. Great to see it come out at least. More to do. Has been really interesting – but not terribly surprising – to see what the media focusses on. But always the tricky 'why?' question. Why indeed? doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

#Early Neolithic farmers in Scandinavia likely consumed porridge or gruel, not bread, as #GrindingStones show no evidence of cereal grinding. This challenges previous assumptions about their diet. doi.org/g8wkfd phys.org/news/2024-12-g…

Did you know! #thread

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Compliments on the season from all of us at the NCMM. May this festive season bring with it a renewed appreciation of our collective cultural heritage.

Prost Neujahr! 😂🍻

Ganz so stabil war das Holozänklima ja nicht, aber in den stabilen Phasen ging es den Gesellschaften gut. In den instabilen ging es nicht gut...und in einer solchen, extrem instabilen Phase sind wir jetzt: nature.com/articles/s4146…

As the world drifts towards inauguration day in 🇺🇸, here a good read by Peter Turchin on long-term underlying historical dynamics. Main forcing is popular discontent. 🇪🇺 is not far behind in this general process... theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

Not so far behind, indeed...🇦🇹. Who is next?!

Ganz anders als die meisten Marxisten war Marx selbst ein sehr kluger Kopf. Seine Einschätzung Russlands ist zeitlos (und würde ihn heutzutage womöglich zum #Waffenlieferungsultra machen) taz.de/Karl-Marx-Expe…

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This week's 2024 report by Copernicus ECMWF shows highest recorded CO2 and CH4 annual levels bit.ly/424M12O Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) global pop and greenhous gas graph illustrates how really unprecedented the current global sitation is in a long-term perspective:

On Friday, our collegues published a strong paper on conflict mitigation that can not be more timely. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

It fits all too well: 6,300 years ago, dozens of people were murdered in grisly victory celebrations in France livescience.com/archaeology/6-…

Excellent review on a fascinating book: What drove the rise of civilizations? A decades-long quest points to warfare nature.com/articles/d4158…