Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa : physical and human dimensions /
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Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
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Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13539972 |
Other authors / contributors: | Knight, Jasper, editor. Grab, S. W., editor. |
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ISBN: | 9781316574881 1316574881 9781316574553 1316574555 9781316573563 1316573567 9781316572900 1316572900 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | 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. |
Other form: | Print version: Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107055797 |
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