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The Long Summer - How Climate Changed Civilization (Paperback, Export Ed)
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The Long Summer - How Climate Changed Civilization (Paperback, Export Ed)
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Discovery Miles 4 620
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Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of
the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began
to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this
warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the
human species. In "The Long Summer," Brian Fagan brings us the
first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years
of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to
civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to
take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove
settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its
inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased
rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. "The Long
Summer" illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern
of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an
ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today.
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