Thank you for this resource. Howard
> On May 28, 2024, at 9:09 PM, Eric Moses Gurevitch <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The Climate History Network <https://www.climatehistory.net/> maintains an > bibliography of publications > <https://www.zotero.org/groups/22111/historical_climatology_network_bibliographical_project/library> > related to historic climatology along with a list of databases > <https://www.climatehistory.net/projects> that compile proxy data for climate > from high-quality academic publications. > > Especially valuable is the Paleoclimatology Data Map > <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/paleo/> maintained by the US National Centers > for Environmental Information and the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas > <https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LDEO/.TRL/.MADA/figviewer.html?plottype=colors> > from the Data Library of the International Research Institute for Climate > and Society at Columbia. > > The strongest data, however, are from after 1000CE, with much more powerful > data from the last 500 years. It would be difficult to link individual events > causally with these climate models. > > Take care, > Eric > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM Jan Kučera <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I have zero expertise in this area but this suggests that on average it >> wasn’t much different than today: >> >> >> >> https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/911/2022/ >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jan >> >> >> >> From: INDOLOGY <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf Of Howard Resnick >> via INDOLOGY >> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:13 PM >> To: Caley Smith <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Cc: Indology List <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Record heat Mohenjo Daro >> >> >> >> Thanks Caley. Without pretension to precision, I will go with the >> Archeological Survey of India and date the events of the epic, not the >> surviving text, to roughly 1000 BCE. >> >> >> >> If we include the older surviving structures of the Harappan civilization, >> we can inquire as to West and Northwest weather patterns back to 4,000 BC, >> and earlier for less imposing remains. My apologies to actual experts in >> this area for my crude calculus. >> >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Howard >> >> >> >> <image001.jpg> >> >> Mahabharata: Mahabharata much older, say ASI Archaeologists >> <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/mahabharata-much-older-say-asi-archaeologists/articleshow/71658119.cms?from=mdr> >> economictimes.indiatimes.com >> <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/mahabharata-much-older-say-asi-archaeologists/articleshow/71658119.cms?from=mdr> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On May 28, 2024, at 9:53 AM, Caley Smith <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> >> I guess it depends on when you are dating the composition of the MBh. >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:37 AM Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Dear Scholars, >> >> >> >> Is there any evidence that thousands of years ago, the weather in Pakistan >> and Northern India was significantly different than it is today? I ask >> because I’m trying to imagine the conditions roughly around the time of >> Mahābharata. >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Howard >> >> >> >> >> >> <image002.jpg> >> >> Temperatures in Pakistan cross 52 degrees Celsius — that’s more than 125°F >> <https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/asia/pakistan-heat-wave-sindh-climate-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app> >> cnn.com >> <https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/asia/pakistan-heat-wave-sindh-climate-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > > > -- > Eric Moses Gurevitch > National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow > Vanderbilt University > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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