> 2. Ascribe the primary cause of all events to climate change. in history and adjacent fields, this is the current angle you must incorporate to get any signi

> 2. Ascribe the primary cause of all events to climate change. in history and adjacent fields, this is the current angle you must incorporate to get any significant funding. its that simple. edit: 3 members of my family are working archaeologists, one of whom is PI on a major UNESCO world heritage site. I am not an expert in the field myself, but I am asked to read and offer minor editing assistance on several grant propodals a year. This trend has nothing to do with PC agenda or wokeness. consider that other so called 'woke' priorities are not similarly promoted, the reason is there is no substantial grant money coming from those directions. As other commenters have pointed out, environmental factors have been a staple category of theory for as long as human settlement patterns have been studied. the reason this niche is happening 'all across academia' right _now_ is that lately, that's where the money is. There is no more to this trend than 1. losing a grant to another proposal 2. reading said proposal and noticing the (sometimes clearly procrustean) climate change angle. 3. reworking your own proposal along similar limes 4. getting in the next round. word travels fast.