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J. G. MANNING

Recent work on climatic change, Paleoclimatology, Volcanic impacts on
climate and society




Just published:

Ram Singh et al., "
Investigating hydroclimatic impacts of the 168–158 BCE volcanic quartet and their relevance to the Nile River basin and Egyptian history" Climate of the Past 2023.

The work is featured in Nature "Research Highlights" for the week of February 3 2023, and on the Nature podcast dropped on February 8 2023.


J.G. Manning et al., "Volcanic suppression of Nile Summer flooding triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt" Nature Communications 8 (2017)

Select Print Media on the article:
PAGES Past Global Changes (Bern Switzerland)- news on the paper consolidated here,  and on the Altmetric site
  • New York Times (17 October 2017)
  • ​National Geographic (17 October 2017)
  • Washington Post (17 October 2017)
  • ​LA Times (17 October 2017)
  • Eos (23 October 2017)
  • ​Süddeutsche Zeitung (17 October 2017)

On the Airwaves:
  • Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYURadio.org (30 October 2017)- speaking about our Nature Communications paper on volcanic impacts on the Nile Watershed.​​
 Joseph R. McConnell et al., "Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom," PNAS June 2020.

​Joseph R. McConnell et al., "Reply to Strunz and Braeckel: Agricultural failures logically link historical events to extreme climate following the 43 BCE Okmok eruption," PNAS November 2020.
  • New York Times story is HERE. 

On the Airwaves:
  • Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYURadio.org (6 June 2020)

Podcasts:
  • Climate Change in the Ancient World, on Dagomar Degroot's Climate History podcast (May 2020)
  • Interview with Al Zambone on his Historically Thinking podcast about The Open Sea (June 2020) Princeton University Press, 2018, ppb 2020.
  • "Ancient Office Hours" with Lexie Henning
  • Yale History Podcast- "The Okmok Eruption and the Roman World"


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Recent publications
"Egypt," in A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World. Ed. F. de Angelis. Blackwell, 2020.

Review of Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome, Princeton University Press, 2017, in the Journal of Historical Geography 63 (January 2019):110-11.

The Open Sea. The Economic Life in the Ancient Mediterranean from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. Princeton University Press.

"Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization," P. Turchin et al., PNAS December 2017.

"Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses," TE Curries, A. Bogaard, R. Cesaretti, NR Edward, P. Francois, PB Holden, D. Hoyer, A. Korotayev, J. Manning, JC Moreno Garcia, OK Oyebamji, C Petrie, P. Turchin, H. Whitehouse, A. Williams. Cliodynamics 6/1 (2015):24-56.

​"Revolts under the Ptolemies. A Paleoclimatological Perspective," in Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East. In the Crucible of Empire. Ed. John J. Collins and J.G. Manning. Leiden. Pp. 154-71.

"Empirical Regularities Across Time, Space, and Culture: A Critical Review of Comparative Methods in Ancient Historical Research," With Dan Hoyer, Lead. Historia 67/2 (2018) 

"A Microscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a Methodological Overview." Digital Humanities Quarterly 10/4 (2016).


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