Climate Change in the Himalaya

Mark Aldenderfer is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Distinguished Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Heritage Studies at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on the comparative analysis of high altitude cultural and biological adaptations from an archaeological perspective. He has worked on the three high elevation plateaus of the planet—Ethiopian, Andean, and Tibetan over the course of his career and currently works in the High Himalayas of Nepal on topics including the early peopling of the Himalayan arc, the appearance of Buddhism in Upper Mustang and nearby valleys, and the human responses to climate variability over the past 1000 years.