[INDOLOGY] Record heat Mohenjo Daro

[Eric Moses Gurevitch]

The Climate History Network <https://www.climatehistory.net/>
maintains an bibliography
of publications
<https://www.zotero.org/groups/22111/historical_climatology_network_bibliographical_project/library>
related to historic climatology along with a list of databases
<https://www.climatehistory.net/projects> that compile proxy data for
climate from high-quality academic publications.



Especially valuable is the Paleoclimatology Data Map
<https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/paleo/> maintained by the US National
Centers for Environmental Information and the Monsoon Asia Drought Atlas
<https://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.LDEO/.TRL/.MADA/figviewer.html?plottype=colors>
from the Data Library of the International Research Institute for Climate
and Society at Columbia.



The strongest data, however, are from after 1000CE, with much more powerful
data from the last 500 years. It would be difficult to link individual
events causally with these climate models.



Take care,

Eric

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM Jan Kučera <jan.kucera at ujca.cz> wrote:

> I have zero expertise in this area but this suggests that on average it
> wasn’t much different than today:
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> https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/911/2022/
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> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> *On Behalf Of *Howard
> Resnick via INDOLOGY
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:13 PM
> *To:* Caley Smith <smith.caley at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Indology List <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Record heat Mohenjo Daro
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> Thanks Caley. Without pretension to precision, I will go with the
> Archeological Survey of India and date the events of the epic, not the
> surviving text, to roughly 1000 BCE.
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> If we include the older surviving structures of the Harappan civilization,
> we can inquire as to West and Northwest weather patterns back to 4,000 BC,
> and earlier for less imposing remains. My apologies to actual experts in
> this area for my crude calculus.
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> Best wishes,
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> Howard
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> Mahabharata: Mahabharata much older, say ASI Archaeologists
> <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/mahabharata-much-older-say-asi-archaeologists/articleshow/71658119.cms?from=mdr>
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> economictimes.indiatimes.com
> <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/mahabharata-much-older-say-asi-archaeologists/articleshow/71658119.cms?from=mdr>
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> On May 28, 2024, at 9:53 AM, Caley Smith <smith.caley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I guess it depends on when you are dating the composition of the MBh.
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> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:37 AM Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Scholars,
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> Is there any evidence that thousands of years ago, the weather in Pakistan
> and Northern India was significantly different than it is today? I
> ask because I’m trying to imagine the conditions roughly around the time of
> Mahābharata.
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> Thanks!
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> Howard
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> Temperatures in Pakistan cross 52 degrees Celsius — that’s more than 125°F
> <https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/asia/pakistan-heat-wave-sindh-climate-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app>
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> cnn.com
> <https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/asia/pakistan-heat-wave-sindh-climate-intl-hnk?cid=ios_app>
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Eric Moses Gurevitch

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow

Vanderbilt University

eric.m.gurevitch at vanderbilt.edu
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