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Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China
- 1st Edition, Volume 9 - May 10, 2007
- Editors: D.B. Madsen, F. Chen, X. Gao
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 2 9 6 2 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 4 3 1 - 1
Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDue to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding of the foraging strategies which led both to the development of millet agriculture and to the utilization of the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau. This text explores the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic striving to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period.
* Examines the transition from foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic
* Explores explanatory models for the links between climate change and cultural change that may have influenced the development of millet agriculture
* Reviews the relationship between climate change and population expansions and contraditions during the late Quaternary
* Explores explanatory models for the links between climate change and cultural change that may have influenced the development of millet agriculture
* Reviews the relationship between climate change and population expansions and contraditions during the late Quaternary
Archeologists, human geographers, anthropologists, paleoclimatologists in archaeological institutes and those conducting research for natural history museums.
- No. of pages: 244
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 9
- Published: May 10, 2007
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444529626
- eBook ISBN: 9780080544311
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D.B. Madsen
Affiliations and expertise
University of Texas, Austin TX, USAFC
F. Chen
Affiliations and expertise
Lanzhou University, ChinaXG
X. Gao
Affiliations and expertise
Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, ChinaRead Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China on ScienceDirect