The project investigates the link between abrupt climate cooling following major volcanic eruptions and outbreaks of infectious diseases, focusing on both ecological mechanisms and how people’s living conditions change as a result of, for example, crop failures, malnutrition, migration and overcrowding. By combining archaeological and historical data with modelling, epidemics of plague, typhoid and cholera are analysed. A new climate-driven human-ecological model for disease spread will be developed and used in both case studies and global simulations. The aim is to provide new insights into how natural disasters, climate change and epidemics are interlinked, with implications for both historical research and the understanding of climate-related health crises. In this project, you will investigate how climate-related crises, deteriorating living conditions and epidemics are reflected in pre-industrial societies through bone material.
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