Quaternary Environmental Change in Southern Africa - Physical and Human Dimensions (Hardcover)

Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2016
Editors:	Jasper Knight • Stefan W. Grab
Dimensions:	253 x 180 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	450
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-05579-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	1-107-05579-2
Barcode:	9781107055797

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