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Research Article

Social resilience to nuclear winter: lessons from the Late Antique Little Ice Age

Pages 57-67 | Received 29 Sep 2020, Accepted 29 Jul 2021, Published online: 05 Aug 2021

Figures & data

Table 1. Estimated production of black carbon aerosols from a nuclear exchange of roughly 1500kt and related climatic effects in the first several years following the exchange

Table 2. Cases used in the analyses and associated information. The first column gives the full case name followed by the abbreviated name in parentheses. The second column gives the full time period from which data were collected (although data were focused on the 20 year period before and after 536CE)

Figure 1. Locations of the 20 sample cases

Figure 1. Locations of the 20 sample cases

Table 3. Variables comprising the Corporate/Exclusionary Index (CEI). All were coded on a 5-point ordinal scale. Specific scale value definitions are unique for each variable. Variable names are those in the dataset archived at the Human Relations Area Files Advanced Research Center (hrafarc.org)

Table 4. Variables comprising the Social Change Index (SCI). All were coded on a 3-point (1) none, (2) some, (3) much scale. Variable names are those in the dataset archived at the Human Relations Area Files Advanced Research Center (hrafarc.org)

Table 5. Pearson’s r correlations between the Corporate/Exclusionary Index (columns) and dependent (rows) variables. Column (a) shows the results of one-tailed Pearson’s correlations; column (b) shows the results of one-tailed partial correlations controlling for political hierarchy

Data availability statement

The project codebook, an Excel file containing all codes and supporting evidence, and the full coded dataset in csv and SPSS format are archived at the HRAF Advanced Research Center at Yale University (hrafarc.org/#HhrafARCDataRepository). A working version of the RDF data is available through Terminus DB (hub.terminusdb.com/pperegrine/resilience).