Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ro0u8QQqw
Did Climate Change cause the Bronze Age Collapse? | Ancient Origins | 5:04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cB88HA5ntg
Drought Was the Cause of the Maya Collapse | Dr Diane Davies | 4:10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyYIqR5jCls
Collapse of the Ancient Maya Civilisation: Aligning History with Geological Analysis
SciTube | 3:51

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nJDTR6R7Gc
Mount Tambora: The Year Without a Summer | Geographics | 23:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF154bKcyFY
Volcanic Eruption in Alaska May Have Helped End the Roman Republic
News Direct | 23:22
(This is a summary of McConnell et al. (2020) in readings below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjGWKKxooQ
A Day in the Worst Year To Be Alive: Year 536 AD | A Day in History | 8:18

Readings

• Drake, B.L., 2017. Changes in North Atlantic Oscillation drove Population Migrations and the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Scientific Reports, 7, 1227.
  Openly Available From Nature.
  
• Drake, B.L., 2012, The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages, Journal of Archaeological Science, 39, 1862-1870.
  Openly Available from ResearchGate.
  
• Büntgen, U., et al., 2011. 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility. Science, 331, 578-582.
  Available on Science with your BC Library credentials, or
  Openly Available from ResearchGate
  
• Manning, S., et al., 2023. Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 BC. Nature, 614, 719-724.
  Openly Available from Nature.
  
• Kanieski D., et al., 2013. Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis. PLoS One, 8, e71004.
  Openly available from PLosOne.
  
• Haug, G., et al., 2003. Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization. Science, 299, 1731-1735.
  Available from Science with your BC Library credentials, or
  Openly Available from Columbia
  
• McConnell et al., 2020. Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom. PNAS, 117, 15443-15449.
  Openly available from PNAS.