[SunkenCiv]

Subtitle: Previously unknown mid-Holocene event led to major changes in human settlement, according to findings from University of California, Irvine, University of Pennsylvania and William Paterson University

To create a paleoclimate record for the study, co-author Kathleen Johnson, UCI associate professor of Earth system science, and other researchers collected stalagmite samples from caves in Northern Laos. The specimens hold geochemical evidence of past climate change in the highly populated Asian monsoon region. Credit: Amy Ellsworth

[KarlInOhio]

I don't believe it. Climate (and weather) stayed exactly the same, year after year, until the SUV was invented.

[Rurudyne]

The formation she’s standing next to looks a bit like the legs, hips and lower back of some poor guy imbedded in the stone upside down as if hanging by his feet.

It even looks like a section of his right leg bone is exposed.

[Berosus]

As you know, I record the History of Southeast Asia Podcast, and aside from the Ban Chiang culture in Thailand, and the exploration of Southeast Asia’s islands by the ancestors of today’s Malays, Indonesians and Filipinos, I don’t think much was happening in Southeast Asia at the time proposed for this drought. No empire to bring down by the change in climate, anyway.