Climate change and cultural dynamics [recurso electrónico] a global perspective on mid-Holocene transitions

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.). * Explores the role of climatic change on the development of society around the world* Chapters detail diverse geographical regions* Co-written by noted archaeologists and paleoclimatologists for non-specialists Climate and cultural change : exploring Holocene transitions / David G. Anderson ... [et al.] Mid-Holocene climate and culture change in coastal Peru / Daniel H. Sandweiss ... [et al.] Mid-holocene climate and culture change in the South Central Andes / Martin Grosjean ... [et al.] Mid-Holocene climate and cultural dynamics in Brazil and the Guianas / Betty J. Meggars Culture and climate change in Mesoamerica during the Middle Holocene / Barbara Voorhies and Sarah E. Metcalfe Middle Holocene environments of north and east Africa, with special emphasis on the African Sahara / Fred Wendorf, Wibjörn Karlén, and Romuald Schild Influence of Holocene marine transgression and climate change on cultural evolution in southern Mesopotamia / Douglas J. Kennett and James P. Kennett Mid-Holocene cultural dynamics and climatic change in the Western Pacific / Atholl Anderson, Michael Gagan, and James Shulmeister Mid-Holocene climate and cultural dynamics in eastern Central China / Tracey L.-D. Lu Mid-Holocene climatic changes and cultural dynamics in the basin of the Sea of Japan and adjacent areas / Konstantin A. Lutaenko ... [et al.] Mid-Holocene climatic and cultural dynamics in Northern Europe / Wibjörn Karlén and Lars Larsson Mid-Holocene cultural adaptations to central Maine / David Sanger, Heather Almquist, and Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall Mid-Holocene cultural dynamics in southeastern North America / David G. Anderson, Michael Russo, and Kenneth E. Sassaman Mid-Holocene culture and climate on the Northwest Coast of North America / Madonna L. Moss, Dorothy M. Peteet, and Cathy Whitlock Middle Holocene climate change and human population dispersal in eastern Central China / Tracey L.-D. Lu Mid-Holocene climatic changes and cultural dynamics in the basin of the Sea of Japan and adjacent areas / Konstantin A. Lutaenko ... [et al.] Mid- Holocene climatic and cultural dynamics in Northern Europe / Wibjorn Karlen, Lars Larsson Mid-Holocene cultural dynamics in southeastern North America / David G. Anderson, Michael Russo, Kenneth E. Sassaman Mid-Holocene culture and climate on the Northwest Coast of North America / Madonna L. Moss, Dorothy M. Peteet, Cathy Whitlock Middle Holocene climate change and human population dispersal in western North America / Douglas J. Kennett ... [et al.] 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.).

* Explores the role of climatic change on the development of society around the world
* Chapters detail diverse geographical regions
* Co-written by noted archaeologists and paleoclimatologists for non-specialists Linking paleoclimatic and archaeological data to answer important questions of environmental and human cultural change