The INRES project (2023-2026) is evaluating the direct and indirect – going through technological innovation and institutional reforms – impact of climate change on the first states recorded in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Indus Valley. This page reports all activities and output.

Archaeologists, Assyriologists, economists, historians, legal scholars and political scientists from NYU, UCL, University of Barcelona, University of Bologna, University of Cambridge and University of Turin are participating in the project.