Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics
A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions
- 1st Edition - October 12, 2007
- Latest edition
- Editors: David G. Anderson, Kirk Maasch, Daniel H. Sandweiss
- Language: English
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
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.
Contents list.List of figures. Preface and Acknowledgments. Foreword. Climate and Culture Change: Exploring Holocene TransitionsMid-Holocene climate and culture change in coastal Peru. Mid-Holocene climate and culture change in the South Central Andes. Mid-Holocene Climate and cultural dynamics in Brazil and the Guianas. Culture and Climate in Mesoamerica during the middle holocene. Middle holocene environments of North and East Africa, with special emphasis on the African Sahara. Influence of holocene marine transgression and climate change on cultural evolution in Southern Mesopotamia. Mid-Holocene cultural dynamics and climate change in the Western Pacific. Mid Holocene climate and cultural dynamics in Easter Central Asia. Mid-Holocene Climate change and cultural dynamics in the basin of the Sea of Japan and Adjacent AreasMid-Holocene Climatic and Cultural dynamics in Northern Europe. Mid-Holocene Cultural adaptations to central Maine. Mid-Holocen Cultural dynamics in Southeastern North AmericaMid-Holocene culture and climate on the Northwest coast of North America. Middle holocene climate change and population dispersal in Western North America.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 12, 2007
- 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