Anthropology Professor Leads $1.6 Million Project to Model Prehistoric Climate Event in Belize

Robert Rosenswig (left) has conducted archaeological excavations in Mexico, Belize and Costa Rica. His research explores the emergence of sociopolitical complexity and the development of agriculture.

A team of interdisciplinary researchers are turning to a global event 4,200 years ago for insight on human adaptation to climate change.

The project, led by UAlbany archaeologist Robert Rosenswig, has received $1.6 million in funding over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to reconstruct human occupation, food production and tropical forest species diversity in the lowlands of northern Belize around the “4.2k BP” event.