The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
Brian Fagan (UCSB)
Wednesday, January 21 / 3:30-5 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Brian Fagan, UCSB Professor of Anthropology and former Guggenheim Fellow, will discuss his most recent book, The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, (Basic Books 2004). Fagan’s thesis is that fluctuations in climate dramatically affect human behavior, technology and culture. He argues, for instance, that the “warming and drying of the Sahara . . . led to the invention of a cattle-herding culture whose descendants include both the Masai of the East African highlands and the ancient Egyptians”.
Copies can be purchased at the event for signing courtesy of the University Bookstore.
Co-Sponsored by the IHC and the University Bookstore.


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