Stigler Lecture to Focus on End of Ice Age in Central Europe

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Michael Jochim, professor of anthropology at University of California at Santa Barbara.

Michael A. Jochim, professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will give the Stigler Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 19, in Giffels Auditorium. His lecture is titled "The Last Global Warming: The End of the Ice Age in Central Europe."

Roughly 10,000 years ago, Central Europe underwent dramatic environmental changes as the ice age came to an end. Drawing upon over 30 years of fieldwork in southern Germany, this presentation discusses the growing understanding of how the last hunter-gatherers in this area coped with the enormous transformation of their landscape.

Michael Jochim received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan, where he developed his interests in  human ecology, European prehistory, and hunting and gathering societies. These interests have focused especially on the Stone Age of southern Germany and the question of how people adapted to the dramatic environmental changes of global warming approximately 12,000 years ago.