Surviving a climate crisis – lessons from the Bronze Age

UNE Archaeology’s Professor Lloyd Weeks is preparing to lead an international team to the desert in the Middle East this November, in an attempt to better understand how people survived the challenging climate conditions of the Bronze Age.

The team will focus on a site at Shimal – a small, flat piece of arid land wedged between mountains and coast in South East Arabia (today’s UAE and Oman). 

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