Researchers are using this new perspective to examine how past societies managed to cope -- or failed to cope -- with prolonged and severe climate events,events without equal in modem times.

• 研究人员正利用这一新的观点来考察过去的社会是如何解决，或者是未能解决这些持续时间长、极为严重的气候事件的。这些事件在现代还绝无仅有。