Tue June 10, 2014
Stefan Kroepelin presents Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara
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Egypt’s pharaonic civilization rose on the Nile, but it was rooted in the deep Saharan desert and pushed by climate change, says Stefan Kröpelin.
Described in Nature magazine as “one of the most devoted Sahara explorers of our time,” Kröpelin has survived every kind of desert hardship to discover the climate and cultural history of northern Africa. He found that the “Green Sahara” arrived with monsoon rains 10,500 years ago, and people quickly moved into the new fertile savannah. There they prospered as cattle pastoralists—their elaborate rock paintings show herds of rhinoceros and scenes of prehistoric life—until 7,300 years ago, when gradually increasing desiccation drove them to the Nile river, which they had previously considered too dangerous for occupation.
To manage the Nile, the former pastoralists helped to invent a pharaonic state 5,100 years ago. Its 3,000-year continuity has never been surpassed.
Kröpelin, a climate scientist at the University of Cologne, is a dazzling speaker with hair-raising stories, great images, and a compelling tale about climate change and civilization.
Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/
Tuesday June 10, 02014
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $15
http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/jun/10/civilizations-mysterious-desert-cradle-rediscovering-deep-sahara/
Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
https://longnow.org/membership/
Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
http://longnow.org/live/
SFJAZZ Center at
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions
There will be a reception on the Mezzanine following the Seminar
Stefan Kroepelin Image
http://media.longnow.org/files/2/salt-020140610-kroepelin.jpg
Long Now Seminar Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-term/id186908455
About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
For more information contact:
Danielle Engelman
Director of Programs
[email protected]
415.561.6582 x1
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Described in Nature magazine as “one of the most devoted Sahara explorers of our time,” Kröpelin has survived every kind of desert hardship to discover the climate and cultural history of northern Africa. He found that the “Green Sahara” arrived with monsoon rains 10,500 years ago, and people quickly moved into the new fertile savannah. There they prospered as cattle pastoralists—their elaborate rock paintings show herds of rhinoceros and scenes of prehistoric life—until 7,300 years ago, when gradually increasing desiccation drove them to the Nile river, which they had previously considered too dangerous for occupation.
To manage the Nile, the former pastoralists helped to invent a pharaonic state 5,100 years ago. Its 3,000-year continuity has never been surpassed.
Kröpelin, a climate scientist at the University of Cologne, is a dazzling speaker with hair-raising stories, great images, and a compelling tale about climate change and civilization.
Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/
Tuesday June 10, 02014
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $15
http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/jun/10/civilizations-mysterious-desert-cradle-rediscovering-deep-sahara/
Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
https://longnow.org/membership/
Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
http://longnow.org/live/
SFJAZZ Center at
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions
There will be a reception on the Mezzanine following the Seminar
Stefan Kroepelin Image
http://media.longnow.org/files/2/salt-020140610-kroepelin.jpg
Long Now Seminar Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-term/id186908455
About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
For more information contact:
Danielle Engelman
Director of Programs
[email protected]
415.561.6582 x1
Egypt’s pharaonic civilization rose on the Nile, but it was rooted in the deep Saharan desert and pushed by climate change, says Stefan Kröpelin.
Described in Nature magazine as “one of the most devoted Sahara explorers of our time,” Kröpelin has survived every kind of desert hardship to discover the climate and cultural history of northern Africa. He found that the “Green Sahara” arrived with monsoon rains 10,500 years ago, and people quickly moved into the new fertile savannah. There they prospered as cattle pastoralists—their elaborate rock paintings show herds of rhinoceros and scenes of prehistoric life—until 7,300 years ago, when gradually increasing desiccation drove them to the Nile river, which they had previously considered too dangerous for occupation.
To manage the Nile, the former pastoralists helped to invent a pharaonic state 5,100 years ago. Its 3,000-year continuity has never been surpassed.
Kröpelin, a climate scientist at the University of Cologne, is a dazzling speaker with hair-raising stories, great images, and a compelling tale about climate change and civilization.
Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/
Tuesday June 10, 02014
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $15
http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/jun/10/civilizations-mysterious-desert-cradle-rediscovering-deep-sahara/
Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
https://longnow.org/membership/
Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
http://longnow.org/live/
SFJAZZ Center at
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions
There will be a reception on the Mezzanine following the Seminar
Stefan Kroepelin Image
http://media.longnow.org/files/2/salt-020140610-kroepelin.jpg
Long Now Seminar Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-term/id186908455
About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
For more information contact:
Danielle Engelman
Director of Programs
[email protected]
415.561.6582 x1
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Described in Nature magazine as “one of the most devoted Sahara explorers of our time,” Kröpelin has survived every kind of desert hardship to discover the climate and cultural history of northern Africa. He found that the “Green Sahara” arrived with monsoon rains 10,500 years ago, and people quickly moved into the new fertile savannah. There they prospered as cattle pastoralists—their elaborate rock paintings show herds of rhinoceros and scenes of prehistoric life—until 7,300 years ago, when gradually increasing desiccation drove them to the Nile river, which they had previously considered too dangerous for occupation.
To manage the Nile, the former pastoralists helped to invent a pharaonic state 5,100 years ago. Its 3,000-year continuity has never been surpassed.
Kröpelin, a climate scientist at the University of Cologne, is a dazzling speaker with hair-raising stories, great images, and a compelling tale about climate change and civilization.
Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/
Tuesday June 10, 02014
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $15
http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/jun/10/civilizations-mysterious-desert-cradle-rediscovering-deep-sahara/
Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
https://longnow.org/membership/
Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
http://longnow.org/live/
SFJAZZ Center at
201 Franklin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions
There will be a reception on the Mezzanine following the Seminar
Stefan Kroepelin Image
http://media.longnow.org/files/2/salt-020140610-kroepelin.jpg
Long Now Seminar Podcasts
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/salt-seminars-about-long-term/id186908455
About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
For more information contact:
Danielle Engelman
Director of Programs
[email protected]
415.561.6582 x1
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