Climate change and cultural dynamics : a global perspective on mid-Holocene transitions /
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| Imprint: | New York : Elsevier, 2007. |
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| Description: | xxv, 575 p. : ill., maps ; 27cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6647649 |
| Summary: | 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.). |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 575 p. : ill., maps ; 27cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780120883905 0120883902 |
