In 2016, a paper published in Nature Geoscience used data gathered from tree rings to suggest a shift in climate as a key ...

A trio of researchers has found evidence of the impact of the Late Antique Little Ice Age on Iceland almost 1,500 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Geology, Christopher Spencer, ...

Others, meanwhile, contend that the Late Antique Little Ice Age simply coincided with imperial decline. New evidence supporting the former argument comes from oddly out-of-place rocks collected ...

Many historians agree that the fall of the Western Roman Empire, usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

This period of intense, rapid cooling, known as the Late Antique Little Ice Age, coincided with the crumbling of Roman power. Researchers suggest this climatic shift may have been the final blow ...

Generated by ash clouds from three separate volcanic eruptions around 540 C.E., this ice age — the Late Antique Little Ice Age — blocked out the sun and cooled the surface of Earth for some 200 to 300 ...

Titled “Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman’ 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine,” the paper examines how late Ice-Age hunter-gatherers ...

Scientists have found new evidence showing the scale of the Late Antique Little Ice Age. The University of Southampton team, working with Queen's University Canada and the Chinese Academy of ...