Silent Witnesses or Lord of the Rings

Cambridge University Insights

1 Feb

Written By Christiane Büntgen

What connects a series of volcanic eruptions and severe summer cooling with a century of pandemics, human migration and the rise and fall of civilisations?

-Trees.

Thank you to Louise Walsh and the University of Cambridge for featuring my research in the University’s research magazine Horizons, Issue 35, February 2018. Please click the image below to access the beautifully illustrated online story or click Lord of the Rings to download as PDF.

Christiane Büntgen

Silent Witnesses or Lord of the Rings

What connects a series of volcanic eruptions and severe summer cooling with a century of pandemics, human migration and the rise and fall of civilisations?

-Trees.

Illuminating the Hidden Kingdom of the Truffle

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD