The Computational Research on the Ancient Near East (CRANE) Project was well represented at the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), held virtually April 6-9, 2021.
One of the keynote lectures was presented by CRANE collaborator Sandy Harrison, entitled The Climate-Humans-Climate Nexus: Modelling the Impact of Climate on Agricultural Productivity and Agricultural Expansion on Global Climate.
CRANE supported a session entitled CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Analysis and the Reconstruction of Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East, which included seven papers and was chaired by the Director of the CRANE Project, Timothy Harrison.
The titles of the seven presented papers were:
- CRANE 2.0: Large-Scale Data Analysis and the Reconstruction of Human-Environment Interaction in the Ancient Near East by Timothy Harrison.
- Climate of the Ancient Near East from the Early Holocene (9000 kya) to the Middle Holocene (6000 kya) by Deepak Chandan and Richard Peltier.
- Agent-Based Modelling of Human-Climate Interactions in the Ancient Near East by Lynn Welton.
- Resolving Timescale and Multi-Year Human-Scale Climate Impacts in the East Mediterranean by Sturt Manning.
- Isotopic Research as a Tool for Reconstructing Human-Environment Interaction in the Near East by Graham Philip, Lucie Johnson, Lynn Welton, Khaled El-Bashaireh, Abdulla Al-Shorman, Janet Montgomery, Geoff Nowell, and Darren Gröcke.
- Vegetation Reconstruction in the CLaSS (Climate, Landscape, Settlement and Society) Project by Katleen Deckers, Michelle De Gruchy, Simone Riehl, Valentina Tumolo, and Dan Lawrence.
- Conceiving a new dimension of documentation: 3D data management at Karkemish by Jacopo Monastero.
CRANE was also represented by fourteen individually submitted papers, including one from NMC PhD candidate Dominique Langis-Barsetti, entitled Teaching the Neo-Hittite world one block at a time: Minecraft as an educational tool in Archaeological Outreach. In addition, eight posters highlighted various studies sponsored by CRANE.
Now you can watch these talks on the CRANE Project’s youtube channel.