Brian Fagan is one of the world's leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of several widely read books on ancient climate change. He has lectured about the subject to audiences large and small throughout the world. His latest book is Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization (Yale University Press, 2018).Nadia Durrani is a Cambridge University-trained archaeologist and writer, with a PhD from University College, London, in Arabian archaeology. She is the former editor of Current Archaeology and Current World Archaeology magazines and has a very wide experience in writing about archaeology for wider audiences. She is co-author of several text books with Brian, and the forthcoming trade books What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History (Yale University Press, 2019) and Bigger Than History: Why Archaeology Matters (Thames and Hudson, 2019).
"The leading archaeologist writing team of Brian Fagan and Nadia
Durrani has compiled a fascinating study of human species'
adaptation through cycles of drought and flooding in pre-industrial
and post-industrial times."--New York Journal of Books
"[A] rich survey of the past 30,000 years."--Nature
"Impassioned...educational...Fagan and Durrani's work offers an
original historical perspective."--Publishers Weekly
"Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors by Brian
Fagan and Nadia Durrani is a tour de force because of its relevance
to deal with global climate change. The authors ask, what can we
learn from past successes and failures? The takeaway are six major
lessons critical for our survival. Their clearly written and
concise book includes [hi]stories beginning 30,000 years ago up
through the Anthropocene. Case studies cover the cold (Ice Age) and
the hot and dry (ancient Egypt) and hot and humid (the Maya), from
nomadic hunters (early Africa and Europe) to empires (Rome), from
megadroughts (American Southwest) to monsoons (Angkor)."--Lisa
Lucero, professor of anthropology, University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana
"Climate change is happening right now--but has happened many times
before, too. Climate Chaos tells an astonishing story of thousands
of years of wildfires, megadroughts, cataclysmic cyclones and
floods, decades-long heat waves and sudden regional ice ages. As we
respond to contemporary climate change, our great advantage over
our ancestors is scientific knowledge. Will we use that knowledge
wisely? Climate Chaos shows how."--Gregg Easterbrook, member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of The Blue
Age
"It is often said that those who fail to study history are doomed
to repeat it. Human-caused climate change constitutes the greatest
challenge we have yet faced as a civilization, and we must learn
from our past if we are to meet that challenge. I can think of no
better source than Climate Chaos by Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani,
which explores how our ancestors coped with the challenges of
natural climate instability, offering some lessons along the way
for how we can avert a climate crisis."--Michael E. Mann,
distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State
University and author of The New Climate War
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