Climate and cultural change in prehistoric Europe and the Near East

"Rich case studies examining responses to climatic events in ancient Europe and the Near East. The subject of climate change could hardly be more timely. In Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East, an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine climate change thr...

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Autores Corporativos: European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting (-), 8.2 ka Climate Event and Archaeology in the Ancient Near East (Conference)
Otros Autores: Biehl, Peter F., editor (editor), Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press [2016]
Colección:Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology distinguished monograph series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35859726*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Climate and Culture Change in Archaeology / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse & Peter F. Biehl
  • The Oasis of Palmyra in Prehistory : Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Palaeoclimate and Human Occupation in the Region of Palmyra/Tadmor (Central Syria) / Mauro Cremaschi and Andrea Zerboni
  • When the Going gets Tough : Risk Minimisation Responses to the 8.2 ka Event in the Near East and their role in Emergence of the Halaf Cultural Phenomenon / Mandy Mottram
  • The 8.2 ka event in Upper Mesopotamia : climate and cultural change / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Peter Akkermans, Jan van der Plicht, A. Russell and A. Kaneda (Leiden)
  • The aftermath of the 8.2 Event : Cultural and Environmental Effects in the Anatolian Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic / Patrick T. Willett, Ingmar Franz, Ceren Kabukcu, David Orton, Jana Rogasch, Elizabeth Stroud, Eva Rosenstock, and Peter F. Biehl
  • Managing risk through diversification in plant exploitation during the 7th millennium BC : The phytolith microbotanical record at Çatalhöyük / Philippa Ryan and Arlene Rosen
  • The 8.2 Event and the Neolithic Expansion in Western Anatolia / Bleda S. Düring
  • "Singing in the Rain" : Khirokitia (Cyprus) in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium cal BC / Odile Daune-Le Brun and Alain Le Brun
  • Early Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and Human Responses in Greece / Catherine Perlès
  • Rapid climate change and radiocarbon discontinuities in the Mesolithic-Early Neolithic settlement record of the Iron Gates : cause or coincidence? / Clive Bonsall, Mark Macklin, Adina Boroneant, Catriona Pickard, László Bartosiewicz, Gordon Cook, and Thomas Higham
  • Climate Fluctuations, Human Migrations, and the Spread of Farming in western Eurasia / Detlef Gronenborn
  • Climate Change in the Polish Upland Bronze Age / Andrzej Pelisiak
  • Climate and the Definition of Archaeological Periods in Sweden / Daniel Löwenborg and Thomas Eriksson
  • Commentary : Epilogue to a Prologue : The Changing Climate of the Past, Present and Future / Ezra B.W. Zubrow.