[Talk] East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: “Risk Management, Climate Change and Diversity in the Prehistoric Spread of Farming to Southwest China and Southeast Asia”

Readers may be interested in this online lecture by Dr. Jade d’Alpoim Guedes on 21 March 2023, on how prehistoric farmers adapted to different environments and challenges in Southwest China and Southeast Asia. Registration details in the link.

The Tibetan plateau experiences changes in temperature at a much higher amplitude than lower altitude locations. Temperatures in the Tibet Autonomous region have soared by 0.4 C per decade since 1960-nearly twice the global average. Throughout prehistory, Tibetans have confronted changes in the mean state of the climate. This talk uses computational modelling and recent archaeological evidence to chart how throughout prehistory who inhabited the eastern plateau have developed place-based resilient adaptations to changes in climate. This talk argues that a cooling climatic conditions around the 2nd millennium BC, led to major innovation in Tibetan subsistence regimes: which included the adoption of frost resistant crops such as barley and pastoral animals.

Source: East-Southeast Asia Colloquium: “Risk Management, Climate Change and Diversity in the Prehistoric Spread of Farming to Southwest China and Southeast Asia” | Center for East Asian Studies