OIS3 STAGE CONFERENCE

The European continent constitutes one of the finest « natural laboratories » for exploring long term interactions between human spread and climatic change. Central Europe Paleolithic landscape is very well preserved under the thick ammount of aeolian sediments which were deposited during the glacial period. The environmental and climatic record hidden in those deposits offer us the possibility to study long term human relations with climate. The objective of this conference is to explore hominin relations with the environment in Central Europe during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (OIS 3 60–24 kyr). We aim to gain better understanding not just of the climatic conditions during this period, but also of how the environment impacted on hominids understanding of themselves and their everyday activities. Answering these questions for the past enriches our ability to better understand human ecology in relation to climate change in the present, and to better understand our human ecological heritage.





http://www.gli.cas.cz/kvarter/OIS3stage/OIS3.html  - mais informações