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  1. This is mind-boggling.

    I so dearly hope I live to see the day when the USA stops glorifying the 15th and 16th century colonizers (especially Cristoforo Columbo).

    "Colonization of the Americas at the end of the 15th century killed so many [indigenous] people, it disturbed Earth’s climate, according to a new study by University College London."

    globalnews.ca/news/4924534/lit

    #IndigenousPeoples
    #LittleIceAge
    #colonization
    #genocide
    #ClimateChange

  2. "Oral, archaeological, and written evidence all show that large populations survived in all of these places by adjusting how they lived, by creating smaller scale societies that in many ways worked better for people and their environments."

    #KathleenDuVal discusses her book #NativeNationsAMillenniumInNorthAmerica

    youtube.com/live/GIL2bpOj70s?t

    #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #AncientCities #AncientAmericas #Cahokia #Hohokam #MedievalWarmPeriod #LittleIceAge #books @bookstodon

  3. A sixth-century little ice age may have contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire

    The fall of the Western Roman Empire has baffled historians for centuries, and explanations have ranged from corruption and political collapse to military defeat and economic collapse...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/lit

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #iceage #littleiceage #romanempire

  4. 500-year-old Transylvanian diaries reveal how the Little Ice Age shaped life and death

    Researchers in Romania have delved into centuries-old documents to grasp how climate fluctuations in the 16th century impacted Transylvania, an area that’s now part of Romania...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/02/tra

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #middleages #littleiceage #transylvania

  5. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #History
    #LatinAmerica
    #LittleIceAge
    #ClimateChange

    (19/19)

    ...the 16th century.

    How can this still/ever be resolved?

    //

    PS
    I'm sorry for the tedious page break, forced upon me by the Mastodon limit of 500k and the issue of counting handles, hyperlinks, as well as hashtags, too. 👎👎👎

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  6. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (14/n)

    ...the #LittleIceAge?👈
    And was that a result of “natural forces” or because of the “large-scale #depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession...”?!?

    The authors say their study shows that the “global carbon budget of...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  7. "While the genre paintings of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan Steen are forever relegated to the 1600s, Bruegel and Avercamp painted views that, until recently, remained a common sight in every Dutch and Belgian village."

    Low Country Climate Canvasses of Little Ice Age

    daily.jstor.org/climate-canvas via JSTOR Daily
    Original image: Hendrick Avercamp, "Winter Landscape with Skaters near a Town" via PubHist
    #LittleIceAge #Art #Renaissance #LowCountries #LowCountry #Climate #Winter

  8. "[O]ne could even argue that “Hunters in the Snow” and “Skating Near a Town” aren’t landscape paintings so much as they are climate paintings."

    On #DutchPainting in the #LittleIceAge

    daily.jstor.org/climate-canvas

    #ArtHistory #Brueghel #IceSkating

  9. Some climate change deniers use the Little Ice Age, a period of regional cooling from the 14th to the 19th century, to argue against human-caused global warming. However, this fallacy ignores this event's scientific evidence and historical context. The Little Ice Age was not a global phenomenon but a local one influenced by various factors, such as volcanic eruptions, solar activity, and ocean currents. #LittleIceAge #ClimateChange #Denial salon.com/2023/08/07/what-clim

  10. Medieval accounts of eclipses shine light on massive volcanic eruptions.
    nature.com/articles/d41586-023
    "Descriptions of lunar eclipses by monks and other scholars help scientists to pinpoint effects of ancient eruptions."
    #Eclipses #VolcanicEruptions #LittleIceAge

  11. How Pink Floyd inspired research into medieval monks and volcanology - Enlarge / Illumination from the late 14th or early 15th century, which ... - arstechnica.com/?p=1929373 #volcaniceruptions #medievalhistory #gaming&culture #climatechange #littleiceage #volcanology #science

  12. @bethroots @Dianora Thank you for your kind note. My dad never talked about the war & very little about stuff that he & his family had to deal with during WWI & its aftermath, i.e. inflation, then #GreatDepression, then Hitler and then WWII. And yes - I am sure your in-laws could tell a tale - most likely of man's inhumanity to man. Reading the history of #Europe is horrifying for sure. The #FeudalSystem, #BlackDeath, #Famines, #LittleIceAge, #SpanishIquisition, and war after war after war.

  13. Thank you for your kind note. My dad never talked about the war and very little about stuff that he and his family had to deal with during WW1 and its aftermath, i.e. inflation and then #GreatDepression and then Hitler and then WWII. And yes - I am sure you in-laws could tell a tale - most likely of man's inhumanity to man. Reading the history of #Europe is horrifying for sure. The #FeudalSystem, #BlackDeath, #Famines, #LittleIceAge, #SpanishIquisition, and war after war after war.

  14. Between 1300 & 1362, as temperatures fell & the #LittleIceAge set in, #weavers in #Greenland made thicker cloth, #WeftDominant. Fascinating #LongRead on #archaeology, the evolution of #spinning & #weaving technique, & #textile as #money, the findings of Michèle Hayeur Smith.
    Also mentions Iceland's exports of #fish, which reached the #LadyOfClare in Suffolk!
    Article by Francine Russo: scientificamerican.com/article

  15. The only global climate event of last 2,000 years was ours - Enlarge (credit: dvdbramhall)
    Some people who reject climate science seem to think climate scient... more: arstechnica.com/?p=1541643 #littleiceage #paleoclimate #science