Climate Change & Cultural Dynamics: A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions
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Description
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
ISBN
9780120883905
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
Elsevier
City
New York, NY
Keywords
Climatic changes, Paleoclimatology, Holocene
Disciplines
Anthropology | Archaeological Anthropology | Climate | Earth Sciences
Recommended Citation
Anderson, David G. Editor; Maasch, Kirk A. Editor; and Sandweiss, Daniel H., "Climate Change & Cultural Dynamics: A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions" (2007). Faculty and Staff Monograph Publications. 119.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fac_monographs/119