Climates, landscapes, and civilizations /
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations brings together a collection of studies on the history of complex interrelationships between humans and their environment by integrating Earth science with archeology and...
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Washington, DC :
GeoPress/American Geophysical Union,
[2012]
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| Σειρά: | Geophysical monograph ;
198. |
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface / Liviu Giosan [and others]
- Bridging a disciplinary gap / William F. Ruddiman
- section 1. Americas. Arguments and evidence against a younger dryas impact event / M. Boslough [and others]
- Environment and agency in the ancient Maya collapse / James J. Aimers
- Rainfall variability and the rise and collapse of the Mississippian chiefdoms / Paul Aharon, David Aldridge, and John Hellstrom
- Building resilience in island communities / Jago Cooper
- Recent seasonal variations in arid landscape cover and aeolian sand mobility, Navajo Nation, southwestern United States / Amy E. Draut, Margaret Hiza Redsteer, and Lee Amoroso
- section 2. Asia. Utilization of distal tephra records for understanding climatic and environmental consequences of the youngest toba tuff / Emma Gatti and Clive Oppenheimer
- An abrupt shift in the Indian monsoon 4000 years ago / M. Berkelhammer [and others]
- Late Holocene drought patterns over West Asia / Michael Staubwasser
- Geomorphological constraints on the Ghaggar River regime during the mature Harappan period / Hideaki Meomuko [and others]
- A simulation of the Neolithic transition in the Indus Valley / Carsten Lemmen and Aurangzeb Khan
- Mid-to-late Holocene agricultural system transformations in the northern fertile crescent / Simone Riehl [and others]
- Late Holocene evolution of the Fuzhou Basin (Fujian, China) and the spread of rice farming / Barry V. Rolett
- Climate-induced changes in population dynamics of Siberian Scythians (700-250 B.C.) / Irina P. Panyushkina.
- section 3. Africa. Geoarchaeological perspectives on Holocene climate change as a civilizing factor in the Egyptian Sahara / Kathleen Nicoll
- Heavy rainfalls in a desert(ed) city / Jonas Berking [and others]
- section 4. Europe. The influence of transgressive paleography on the development and decline of Cardium Pottery Culture (Mediterranean Neolithic) / A. Amorosi and A. Morelli
- A dynamic human socioecology of prehistoric and protohistoric Ulster / Tina Thurston and Gill Plunkett
- section 5. New approaches and discussion. Influences of active tectonism on human development / Eric R. Force and Bruce G. McFadgen
- Irragric anthrosols, artifacts of human adaptation to arid conditions / J. Baade
- Hunter-gatherers, agriculturalists, and climate / Daniel M. Cadzow
- AGU category index.
