Exchange networks and social resilience across the last deglaciation. Exchange networks are a critical dimension of human social resilience, facilitating the movement of people and information in resp

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Exchange networks and social resilience across the last deglaciation. Exchange networks are a critical dimension of human social resilience, facilitating the movement of people and information in response to environmental change. This project will reveal how exchange networks enabled human societies to adapt to the rapidly rising sea levels and extreme climate forcing that brought about the modern (post-glacial) world. We will undertake a multi-isotope analysis of the world’s first mass-produced ornaments, generate new climate data, and create formal network models that will test whether exchange networks operated the same way in the deeper past as they do historically. The project will reveal the functional evolution of exchange networks, and provide an exemplar for archaeological studies of exchange. . Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4301 - Archaeology. Lead: Prof Alexander Mackay