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Project Code [GOIPG/2020/608]
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Project title
Deisidaimonia' (Panic!): A study of crisis, climate, and rebellion in Carthaginian North Africa
Primary Funding Agency
Irish Research Council
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD)
Project Abstract
Africa is mother to some of humanity�s oldest civilisations, among them the maritime state of Carthage (ca. 814-146 BC). Yet, the sustainability of populous urban civilisation, especially in Africa, is often subject to nature�s whims. New polar ice-cores are providing historians with chronologically precise data on historic volcanic eruptions with global environmental impacts. Between 400 and 30 BC, multiple eruptions on a scale beyond any in the past two centuries occurred (Sigl et al. 2015). Sudden volcanically-induced climatic change is thus now a rapidly developing area of scholarship.
Grant Approved
�48,000.00
Research Theme
Relevant to other areas as well as climate
Initial Projected Completion Date
01/10/2022