Climate and ancient societies

Weitere Verfasser: Kerner, Susanne.
Dann, Rachael J.
Bangsgaard, Pernille.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015.
Umfang/Format: 351 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 20 Datensätze
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Foreword: Stine Rossel (1975-2007) : an appreciation / Richard H. Meadow
  • Introduction: Can archaeology save the world? / Rachael J. Dann
  • Holocene climate change and archaeological implications, with particular reference to the East Mediterranean region / Neil Roberts
  • Hunter-gatherers living in a flooded world : the change of climate, landscapes and settlement patterns during the late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic on Bornholm, Denmark / Lasse Sørensen and Claudio Casati
  • Urban adaptations to climate change in northern Mesopotamia / Jason Ur
  • Cultural transformation and the 8.2 ka event in Upper Mesopotamia / Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Johannes van der Plicht, Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse, Anna Russell and Akemi Kaneda
  • Climate and social change during the transition between the late Neolithic and early Chalcolithic in central Anatolia / Peter F. Biehl
  • A narrow place can contain a thousand friends : irrigation as a response to climate in the Zerqa Triangle, Jordan / Maurits Ertsen and Eva Kapteijn
  • The late Bronze Age collapse and the early Iron Age in the Levant : the role of climate in cultural disruption / David Kaniewski, Elise Van Campo, Karel Van Lerberghe, Tom Boiy, Greta Jans, Joachim Bretschneider
  • Long term or short term? : climate change and the demise of the Old Kingdom / Miroslav Bárta
  • New data on animal exploitation from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic periods in northern Sudan / Louis Chaix and Matthieu Honegger
  • Large game depression and the process of animal domestication in the Near East / Benjamin S. Arbuckle
  • Living in a marginal environment : climate instability and possible lathyrism in the Syrian Neolithic / Deborah C. Merrett and Christopher Meiklejohn
  • Perceptions of pasture : the role of skill and networks in maintaining stable pastoral nomadic systems in Inner Asia / Joshua Wright and Cheryl Makarewicz
  • Understanding the reasons for non-sustainability in past agricultural systems / Simone Riehl
  • AMS ¹⁴C-dated plants as a tool for investigating palaeoclimate : new data for analysing social complexity in Ebla and Qatna (north-western Syria) in the light of 3rd millennium BC climate change / Girolamo Fiorentino and Valentina Caracuta
  • Provenance studies of ancient textiles : a new method based on the strontium isotope system / Karin Margarita Frei.