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SUMMARY:Ice cores and tree-rings give a new slant on the great plagues of 
 history - Prof. Mike Baillie\, Queens University Belfast
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CONTACT:Michael Flowerdew
DESCRIPTION:Historians have had to look at major happenings in the past th
 rough the filter of human recording.  Now completely independent ice-core 
 and tree-ring records are allowing us to explore some of the key events of
 \nhistory in new ways.  They are also suggesting an environmental context 
 for some major events - such as the Justinian Plague of the AD 540s and th
 e\nBlack Death of the 1340s.  Up to now the "Environment" has not featured
  strongly in considerations of the human past\; these new scientific recor
 ds suggest that it may well feature in future studies.
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, conference room
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