Archive of Nature: A Type of Evidence Used by Historians to Understand Past Climates

A follow-up to 2023's Archive of Society presentation!

Historians, to track changes in past climates, are increasingly learning how to read the evidence produced by both people and nature: the latter type of evidence is referred to as the Archive of Nature. This presentation focuses on nature with a basic explanation of how pollen, ice cores, and tree rings help scholars interpret the climate of past societies. Presented by Robert Ingoglia, Ph.D Adjunct Instructor of History at St. Thomas Aquinas College.

About Dr. Robert Ingoglia
Adjunct Instructor of History – St. Thomas Aquinas College.

While pursuing graduate degrees in Medieval European/Ancient History, he studied Latin paleography at the Franciscan Institute (Saint Bonaventure University) and was a summer fellow at the American Numismatic Society. Post-doctoral work in military history was done at the summer seminar sponsored by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has published articles on medieval church ritual in the Catholic Historical Review, the Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft, Byzantion: Revue Internationale des Études Byzantines, and written 180 reviews of both books and websites (as of August 2023) for the American Library Association. His research interests include Ancient and Medieval History (especially Church History), Climate History, Modern Italian History (especially Fascism) and Military History. He is a member of various listservs on H-Net.