Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics - A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Academic Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2007
First published:	October 2007
Editors:	David G. Anderson • Kirk Maasch • Daniel H. Sandweiss
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	602
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-088390-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General
LSN:	0-12-088390-2
Barcode:	9780120883905

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