Monday, February 10, 6 pm, Rittenburg Lounge, Mather Hall, on the campus of Trinity College.

Alexia Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Archaeology provides an ideal tool for examining the long-term dynamic relationship between people and their environment. This talk presents how archaeologists reconstruct ancient methods of food production and climate change, providing examples from sites in Northern Mesopotamia. Lessons learned from studies of ancient agriculture are applied and used to consider the role that climate change played in the collapse of the Akkadian Empire at the end of the 3rd Millennium B.C.

As always, this AIA lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Wendi Delaney, 860-297-2543.