How Did Early Humans Survive Climate Change? - Sander van der Leeuw

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/v/c11292

Archaeologist Sander van der Leeuw says one way ancient humans survived periods of climate instability was to stay below the environment's carrying capacity. The only areas that experienced regular famine, he explains, were those abundant in natural resources because "people were lured into the idea that they could actually have more and more people."

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Are we the first civilization to try and innovate our way out of climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world?

Sander van der Leeuw, Director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute, has spent his career studying these questions. During his seminar, van der Leeuw explores this research into the past, as well as its application to our current global predicament. - Long Now Foundation

Sander van der Leeuw is an archaeologist and historian by training. After teaching appointments at Leyden, Amsterdam, Cambridge (UK) and Paris he presently holds the Chair of Anthropology at Arizona State University in the USA. He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute, a Correspondent of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

His research interests have been in archaeological theory, reconstruction of ancient ceramic technologies, regional archaeology, (ancient and modern) man-land relationships, GIS and modelling, and Complex Systems Theory. He did archaeological fieldwork in Syria, Holland and France, and conducted ethno-archaeological studies in the Near East, the Philippines and Mexico.

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[magog1138]

Humans also had lots and lots and lots of sex and babies. There is a reason we like to do it like they do on the Discovery Channel. :-P

[PosVibeMerc]

Whos CO2 emissions caused previous climate changes?

[happinesson]

long time battle with climate change..but still human survive by modify our life to cope with the change..That's what we call Human nature of existence!

[GeorgesBarras]

I lost interest when I heard "essentially survive".

[tinolino58]

The raise of the sea leveal is just an assumption.

There is NO actual data covering that concern..

[SergioSource]

@tinolino58 yeah ofc, ppl living around never noticed how warmer winters get, how the sea level is rasing, and how unbarable the summer is becoming. yh right

[YoYo4everMe]

@PosVibeMerc Natural CO2 emisions e.g. Volcanos.

[tinolino58]

There is NO climate change - its only ideology!

The CRU / IPPC report was all fake and we know it by now!

[HitMeQuick]

This video comprehensively strips the struggle of early humans of its mystery and wonder. Can you imagine this chump "feeding back" these findings to a group of young, successful hunter gatherers from thousands of years ago?

"And so you'll notice the correlation between axis a on my graph and the..."

"Oi mate, can you kill a deer with a fiery stick? No..? Well sit down or fuck off then."

[lightingrings]

@SelectedHandfull i like ur pic XD