Paleoclimatology and Ancient Israel Two Examples: David and the Exile

History is (wo)man-made. There are, however, some constraints to human actions. Climate, for instance, constitutes a clear boundary of what can be done. In my presentation, I have discussed the interaction between topics like demography, technology, landscape, politics and climate in Iron Age Israel/Palestine (± 1200 – 331 BCE). Climate in the Holocene – from the last ice age until the present – has not been constant but subject to change, after a general global warming around 10,000 BCE. Wa..