š after 1st post-covid #nasa travel
#Lisboa #History #Climate #Environment @histodons #paleoclimate
Working on European Research Council #ERC #4Oceans :
Importance of marine life to human societies 4 the last 2000y, w focus on understanding the consequences of marine resource exploitation for societal development
https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/4-oceans/
Climate modeling + geochemists, historians, archaeologists & anthropologists => global world atlas of last 2k human-sea interactions.
One of the first public outreach events was organized by Cristina Brito in Atouguia de Baleia , 85 km from #Lisbon in a historical whaling community.
There, the Lisbon contention has already begun its public outreach:
https://www.instagram.com/stories/4oceanserc/3087280706672451952
Humans began whaling /scavenging/ there millennia agoā¦ But they formally began exploiting whaling resources in earnest about 1000 years ago / BP.
The date for how long resources been exploited is not really knownā¦ Enter U. Trondheim James Barrettā¦
@Univ. Trondheim, they are running DNA/dating/stable isotopes to figure out which species of whale were being exploited, where they lived in the sea, and what they (and people) were eating. ā¦
Canāt scoop a postdoc, but pretty surprising early results to follow.
And not l(e)astly, my colleagues at Trinity College, Dublinā¦ who are pouring over the economic repercussions of sea exploitation and climate shocks that reverberated through historical economies: Francis Ludlow, Poul Holm et al ā¦ ā¦
I guess my North American bias is to think of Whaling as an activity (!Herman Melville!) of buckle-shoed 18th century communities. But the history is far longer in Europe. (Asia/Africa components in progressā¦ forthcoming) The ādawnā of American Whaling was the sunset of those activities in Europe.
#EarlyAnthropocene is a pretty fraught CO2 opinionā¦ but so-far-as whale populations are concernedā¦ looks like it WAS importantā¦
Recent projectā¦ mostly preliminary. Stay tuned for fascinating history.
@KeithDJohnson yes! They are finding these incidentally as construction happens.
Modern buildings tend to incorporate older walls ā the picture above is me standing in a construction site where a home had been recently demolished.
Stay tuned for Cristina Brito and James Barret (post docs) to have many more examples. I only have one more picture of the museumās reconstruction.
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Keith D Johnson
ex or current IDF unwelcome