Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics
A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions
- 1st Edition - October 12, 2007
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: David G. Anderson, Kirk Maasch, Daniel H. Sandweiss
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 5 4 3 2 - 5
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 0 8 8 3 9 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 5 4 5 5 - 6
The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed… Read more
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The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became more complex, with early horticultural systems replaced by intensive agriculture and small-scale societies being replaced by larger, more hierarchial organizations. Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics explores the cause and effect relationship between climatic change and cultural transformations across the mid-Holocene (c. 4000 B.C.).
- Explores the role of climatic change on the development of society around the world
- Chapters detail diverse geographical regions
- Co-written by noted archaeologists and paleoclimatologists for non-specialists
Researchers and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in earth sciences, paleoclimatology, anthropology, and related disciplines.
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 12, 2007
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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David G. Anderson
Affiliations and expertise
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USAKM
Kirk Maasch
Affiliations and expertise
University of Maine, Orono, ME, USADS
Daniel H. Sandweiss
Affiliations and expertise
University of Maine, Orono, USARead Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics on ScienceDirect