Cooling Between 500 And 700 CE And Societal Change During The Late Antique Little Ice Age (IMAGE)

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Cooling Between 500 And 700 CE And Societal Change During The Late Antique Little Ice Age

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Summer temperatures were reconstructed from tree rings in the Russian Altai (red) and the European Alps (blue). Horizontal bars, shadings and stars refer to major plague outbreaks, rising and falling empires, large-scale human migrations, and political turmoil.

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Past Global Changes International Project Office

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