The AD 1300 Event in the Pacific Basin

Patrick Nunn

doi:10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00277.x

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The AD 1300 Event in the Pacific Basin

Patrick Nunn

Geographical Review, Vol.97(1), pp.1-23

2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00277.x

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Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

Human Geography

AD 1300 event

climate change

cultural change

Pacific Basin

sea-level change

Around a.d. 1300 the entire Pacific Basin (continental Pacific Rim and oceanic Pacific Islands) was affected by comparatively rapid cooling and sea-level fall, and possibly increased storminess, that caused massive and enduring changes to Pacific environments and societies. For most Pacific societies, adapted to the warmer, drier, and more stable climates of the preceding Medieval Climate Anomaly (a.d. 750-1250), the effects of this A.D. 1300 Event were profoundly disruptive, largely because of the reduction in food resources available in coastal zones attributable to the 70-80-centimeter sea-level fall. This disruption was manifested by the outbreak of persistent conflict, shifts in settlements from coasts to refugia inland or on unoccupied offshore islands, changes in subsistence strategies, and an abrupt end to long-distance cross-ocean interaction during the ensuing Little Ice Age (a.d. 1350-1800). The A.D. 1300 Event provides a good example of the disruptive potential for human societies of abrupt, short-lived climate changes.

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Title: The AD 1300 Event in the Pacific Basin
Authors: Patrick Nunn (Author) - University of the South Pacific
Publication details: Geographical Review, Vol.97(1), pp.1-23
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Date published: 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2007.tb00277.x
ISSN: 0016-7428
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449576502621
Output Type: Journal article

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