Climate Change in Prehistory


William J. Burroughs
Bok Engelsk 2005 · Electronic books.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005
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1 online resource (370 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Cave paintings; 1.2 DNA sequencing; 1.3 Archaeological foundations; 1.4 Where do we start?; 1.5 What do we cover?; 1.6 Climate rules our lives; 1.7 The interaction between history and climate change; 2 The climate of the past 100000 years; 2.1 Defining climate change and climatic variability; 2.2 The emerging picture of climate change; 2.3 Proxy data; 2.4 Do ice-core and ocean-sediment data relate to human experience?; 2.5 Changes during the last ice age; 2.6 The end of the last ice age. - 2.7 The Holocene2.8 Changes in climate variability; 2.9 Just how chaotic is the climate?; 2.10 Changes in sea level; 2.11 Causes of climate change; 2.12 The lunatic fringe; 2.13 Conclusion: a climatic template; 3 Life in the ice age; 3.1 The climatology of the last ice age; 3.2 The early stages of the ice age; 3.3 Oxygen Isotope Stage Three (OIS3); 3.4 The last glacial maximum (LGM); 3.5 The implications of greater climatic variability; 3.6 Lower sea levels; 3.7 Genetic mapping; 3.8 Walking out of Africa; 3.9 The transition to the Upper Palaeolithic; 3.10 Settling on the plains of Moravia. - 3.11 Life on the mammoth steppes of Asia3.12 Shelter from the storm; 3.13 The first fishermen of Galilee; 3.14 Wadi Kubbaniya and the Kom Ombo Plain; 3.15 Three-dog nights; 3.16 Of lice and men; 4 The evolutionary implications of living with the ice age; 4.1 Bottlenecks; 4.2 The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution; 4.3 Europeans' palaeolithic lineage; 4.4 Physique; 4.5 The broad spectrum revolution; 4.6 Concerning tortoises and hares; 4.7 Gender roles; 4.8 Anthropomorphisation: a pathetic fallacy or the key to survival?; 4.9 The importance of networks. - 4.10 Did we domesticate dogs or did dogs domesticate us?5 Emerging from the ice age; 5.1 The North Atlantic Oscillation; 5.2 Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; 5.3 East and South Asia; 5.4 Africa and the southern hemisphere; 5.5 North America; 5.6 Mass extinctions of big game; 5.7 The origins of agriculture; 5.8 Natufian culture; 5.9 Çatalhöyük; 5.10 People and forests move back into northern Europe; 5.11 The spread of farming into Europe; 5.12 The peopling of the New World; 5.13 Concerning brown bears and hairless dogs; 5.14 A European connection?; 5.15 Flood myths. - 5.16 The formation of the Nile Delta5.17 The lost Saharan pastoral idyll; 5.18 The Bantu expansion; 5.19 ENSO comes and ENSO goes; 6 Recorded history; 6.1 Climatic conditions in Europe during the mid-Holocene; 6.2 East Asia in the mid-Holocene; 6.3 Agricultural productivity: the abundance of Mesopotamia; 6.4 Egypt: a paradigm for stability; 6.5 The price of settling down; 6.6 The first great 'dark age'; 6.7 The demonisation of the pig; 6.8 The sea peoples; 6.9 The continuing catalogue of 'dark ages'; 7 Our climatic inheritance; 7.1 Did we have any choice?. - 7.2 Regaining our palaeolithic potential. - This book explores the challenges that faced humankind in a glacial climate and the opportunities that arose when the climate improved dramatically after the Ice Age. It weaves together studies of the climate with anthropological, archaeological and historical studies, and will fascinate all those interested in climate and human development.
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0521824095. - 9780521070102. - 9780521824095

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