Timothy R. Pauketat, Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America

In Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America, Timothy R. Pauketat seeks to catalogue the climactic, societal, and spiritual changes that transpired in the New World from 800 C.E. to 1300 C.E. during an epoch most commonly known as the “Medieval Climate Anomaly or the Medieval Warm Period” (1). In the opening paragraph of the book’s introduction, Pauketat writes that this volume is meant to serve as a “travel guide to that most consequential pe...