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Winter Rain, Summer Rain: Adaptation, Climate Change, Resilience and the Indus Civilisation
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| Coordinator |
THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Project website | http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/two-rains https |
| Total cost | 1˙999˙439 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙999˙439 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-CoG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-COG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-09-01 to 2021-08-31 |
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| 1 | THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARSOF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE | UK (CAMBRIDGE) | coordinator | 1˙999˙439.00 |
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Project objective
Rainfall systems are complex and inherently variable, yet they are of fundamental importance due to their impact on food security. Given that human populations can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.
TWORAINS will investigate the resilience and sustainability of South Asia’s first complex society, the Indus Civilisation (c.2500-1900 BC), which developed across a range of distinctive environmental contexts where westerly winter rainfall overlapped with the summer rainfall of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM). It is now clear that there was an abrupt weakening of the ISM that directly impacted NW India c.2100 BC, and coincided with the start of the decline of Indus cities, but the degree of connection between the two is elusive.
Archaeologists have a unique role to play in understanding the ways that societies respond to climate change as they can investigate past instances of success or failure, and the Indus Civilisation provides an ideal laboratory in which to explore how societies can respond to variable and changing rain systems. TWORAINS will combine cutting edge approaches from Archaeology, Earth Sciences and Geography to reconstruct climate, model rain patterns, and explore societal adaptations and responses to change by combining data on settlement distribution, food production and consumption, and water stress. The data will then be integrated and assessed using agent-based modelling. By adopting an integrated interdisciplinary approach, it will be possible to ask “Does climate change really cause collapse?”, elucidate how particular communities perceived weather and landscape changes, hypothesise why they made the decisions they did, and explore the consequences of those decisions.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |
Jean-Philippe Baudouin, Michael Herzog, Cameron A. Petrie Cross-validating precipitation datasets in the Indus River basin published pages: 427-450, ISSN: 1607-7938, DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-427-2020 |
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24/1 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Green, Orengo, Alam, Garcia-Molsosa, Green, Conesa, Ranjan, Singh, Petrie Re-Discovering Ancient Landscapes: Archaeological Survey of Mound Features from Historical Maps in Northwest India and Implications for Investigating the Large-Scale Distribution of Cultural Heritage Sites in South Asia published pages: 2089, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs11182089 |
Remote Sensing 11/18 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Cameron A. Petrie, Lloyd Weeks The Iranian Plateau and the Indus River Basin published pages: 293-326, ISSN: , DOI: |
Climate Changes in the Holocene: Their Impacts and Human Adaptation | 2020-04-01 |
| 2020 |
Emma Lightfoot, M. Cemre Ustunkaya, Natalia Przelomska, Tamsin C. O\'Connell, Harriet V. Hunt, Martin K. Jones, Cameron A. Petrie Carbon and nitrogen isotopic variability in foxtail millet ( Setaria italica ) with watering regime published pages: , ISSN: 0951-4198, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8615 |
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 34/6 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Cameron A. Petrie Diversity, variability, adaptation and ‘fragility’ in the Indus Civilisation published pages: 109-133, ISSN: , DOI: 10.17863/cam.40701 |
The Evolution of Fragility: Setting the Terms | 2020-04-01 |
| 2020 |
Cameron A. Petrie, Frank Lynam Revisiting Settlement Contemporaneity and Exploring Stability and Instability: Case Studies from the Indus Civilization published pages: 1-15, ISSN: 0093-4690, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2019.1664848 |
Journal of Field Archaeology 45/1 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Arnau Garcia, Hector Orengo, Francesc Conesa, Adam Green, Cameron Petrie Remote Sensing and Historical Morphodynamics of Alluvial Plains. The 1909 Indus Flood and the City of Dera Ghazi Khan (Province of Punjab, Pakistan) published pages: 21, ISSN: 2076-3263, DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9010021 |
Geosciences 9/1 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2020 |
Jones, P.J., Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., O’Connell, T.C., and Jones, M.K. Investigating adaptation to climate change in the archaeological record: a conceptual framework and an isotopic approach in the Indus Civilisation published pages: 27-41, ISSN: , DOI: |
South Asian Archaeology 2014 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2020 |
Sayantani Neogi, Charles A.I. French, Julie A. Durcan, Ravindra N. Singh, Cameron A. Petrie Geoarchaeological insights into the location of Indus settlements on the plains of northwest India published pages: 137-155, ISSN: 0033-5894, DOI: 10.1017/qua.2019.70 |
Quaternary Research 94 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2020 |
Alessandro Ceccarelli, Cameron A. Petrie Cultural evolutionary paradigms and technological transformations from the Neolithic up to the Indus urban period in South Asia published pages: 3-20, ISSN: , DOI: |
Religions, Society, Trade and Kingship: Archaeology and Art in South Asia and along the Silk Road, 3500 BCE - 5th Century CE, South Asian Archaeology and Art 2016 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Danika Parikh, Cameron A. Petrie ‘We are inheritors of a rural civilisation’: rural complexity and the ceramic economy in the Indus Civilisation in northwest India published pages: 252-272, ISSN: 0043-8243, DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2019.1601463 |
World Archaeology 51/2 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Cameron Petrie, Hector Orengo, Adam Green, Joanna Walker, Arnau Garcia, Francesc Conesa, J. Knox, Ravindra Singh Mapping Archaeology While Mapping an Empire: Using Historical Maps to Reconstruct Ancient Settlement Landscapes in Modern India and Pakistan published pages: 11, ISSN: 2076-3263, DOI: 10.3390/geosciences9010011 |
Geosciences 9/1 | 2020-04-01 |
| 2019 |
Jones, Matthew,; Abu-Jaber, Nizar; AlShdaifat, Ahmad; Baird, Douglas; Cook, Benjamin,; Cuthbert, Mark,; Dean, Jonathan,; Djamali, Morteza; Eastwood, Warren; Fleitmann, Dominik; Haywood, Alan; Kwiecien, Ola; Larsen, Joshua; Maher, Lisa,; Metcalfe, Sarah E.; Parker, Adrian G.; PETRIE, Cameron A.; Primmer, Nick; Richter, Tobias; Roberts, Neil,; Roe, Joe; Tindall, Julia,; Ãœnal-Ä°mer, Ezgi; Weeks, Llo 20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia published pages: , ISSN: 2049-1948, DOI: 10.17863/CAM.35523 |
\"Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Wiley, 2019, 6 (2), ⟨10.1002/wat2.1330⟩\" 2 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2019 |
Alena Giesche, Michael Staubwasser, Cameron A. Petrie, David A. Hodell Indian winter and summer monsoon strength over the 4.2 ka BP event in foraminifer isotope records from the Indus River delta in the Arabian Sea published pages: 73-90, ISSN: 1814-9332, DOI: 10.5194/cp-15-73-2019 |
Climate of the Past 15/1 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2018 |
Yama Dixit, David A. Hodell, Alena Giesche, Sampat K. Tandon, Fernando Gázquez, Hari S. Saini, Luke C. Skinner, Syed A. I. Mujtaba, Vikas Pawar, Ravindra N. Singh, Cameron A. Petrie Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-22504-5 |
Scientific Reports 8/1 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
Hector Orengo, Cameron Petrie Large-Scale, Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing of Palaeo-River Networks: A Case Study from Northwest India and its Implications for the Indus Civilisation published pages: 735, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs9070735 |
Remote Sensing 9/7 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
Cameron A. Petrie, Ravindra N. Singh, Jennifer Bates, Yama Dixit, Charly A. I. French, David A. Hodell, Penelope J. Jones, Carla Lancelotti, Frank Lynam, Sayantani Neogi, Arun K. Pandey, Danika Parikh, Vikas Pawar, David I. Redhouse, Dheerendra P. Singh Adaptation to Variable Environments, Resilience to Climate Change: Investigating Land, Water and Settlement in Indus Northwest India published pages: 1-30, ISSN: 0011-3204, DOI: 10.1086/690112 |
Current Anthropology 58/1 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2018 |
Ceccarelli, A., Petrie, C.A. Ceramic analysis and the Indus Civilisation: a review published pages: 85-98, ISSN: , DOI: |
Walking with the Unicorn. Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
J. Bates, C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh Cereals, calories and change: exploring approaches to quantification in Indus archaeobotany published pages: , ISSN: 1866-9557, DOI: 10.1007/s12520-017-0489-2 |
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
Julie A. Durcan, David S.G. Thomas, Sanjeev Gupta, Vikas Pawar, Ravindra N. Singh, Cameron A. Petrie Holocene landscape dynamics in the Ghaggar-Hakra palaeochannel region at the northern edge of the Thar Desert, northwest India published pages: , ISSN: 1040-6182, DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2017.10.012 |
Quaternary International | 2020-02-07 |
| 2018 |
Diane L. Lister, Huw Jones, Hugo R. Oliveira, Cameron A. Petrie, Xinyi Liu, James Cockram, Catherine J. Kneale, Olga Kovaleva, Martin K. Jones Barley heads east: Genetic analyses reveal routes of spread through diverse Eurasian landscapes published pages: e0196652, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196652 |
PLOS ONE 13/7 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2018 |
Adam S. Green, Cameron A. Petrie Landscapes of Urbanization and De-Urbanization: A Large-Scale Approach to Investigating the Indus Civilization’s Settlement Distributions in Northwest India published pages: 284-299, ISSN: 0093-4690, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2018.1464332 |
Journal of Field Archaeology 43/4 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2018 |
Petrie CA, Green A, Parikh D, Bates J Looking beneath the veneer: thoughts about environmental and cultural diversity in the Indus Civilisation published pages: 455-476, ISSN: , DOI: |
Walking with the Unicorn. Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
C. A. Petrie, J. Bates ‘Multi-cropping’, Intercropping and Adaptation to Variable Environments in Indus South Asia published pages: 81-130, ISSN: 0892-7537, DOI: 10.1007/s10963-017-9101-z |
Journal of World Prehistory 30/2 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2016 |
Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Higham, T. and Singh, R.N. Feeding ancient cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus Civilisation published pages: 1489-1504, ISSN: 0003-598X, DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.210 |
Antiquity 90.354 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2018 |
Hector A. Orengo, Cameron A. Petrie Multi-scale relief model (MSRM): a new algorithm for the visualization of subtle topographic change of variable size in digital elevation models published pages: 1361-1369, ISSN: 0197-9337, DOI: 10.1002/esp.4317 |
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43/6 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
Xinyi Liu, Diane L. Lister, Zhijun Zhao, Cameron A. Petrie, Xiongsheng Zeng, Penelope J. Jones, Richard A. Staff, Anil K. Pokharia, Jennifer Bates, Ravindra N. Singh, Steven A. Weber, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Guanghui Dong, Haiming Li, Hongliang Lü, Hongen Jiang, Jianxin Wang, Jian Ma, Duo Tian, Guiyun Jin, Liping Zhou, Xiaohong Wu, Martin K. Jones Journey to the east: Diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China published pages: e0187405, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187405 |
PLOS ONE 12/11 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
J. Bates, C.A. Petrie, R.N. Singh Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: New evidence from Indus settlements in northern India published pages: 193-201, ISSN: 0305-4403, DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2016.04.018 |
Journal of Archaeological Science 78 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2017 |
Jennifer Bates, Ravindra Nath Singh, Cameron A. Petrie Exploring Indus crop processing: combining phytolith and macrobotanical analyses to consider the organisation of agriculture in northwest India c. 3200–1500 bc published pages: 25-41, ISSN: 0939-6314, DOI: 10.1007/s00334-016-0576-9 |
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26/1 | 2020-02-07 |
| 2016 |
Xinyi Liu, Diane L. Lister, Zhijun Zhao, Richard A. Staff, Penelope J. Jones, Liping Zhou, Anil K. Pokharia, Cameron A. Petrie, Anubha Pathak, Hongliang Lu, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Jennifer Bates, Thomas K. Pilgram, Martin K. Jones The virtues of small grain size: Potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats published pages: 107-119, ISSN: 1040-6182, DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.059 |
Quaternary International 426 | 2020-02-07 |
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