Civilizing climate : social responses to climate change in the ancient near East

1. Verfasser: Rosen, Arlene Miller.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Lanham, Md. : Altamira Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 209 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Holocene climate and society
  • Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant
  • Land and history : introduction to the modern landscape and historical framework
  • Paleoenvironments of the near east : the retreat of the pleistocene
  • Holocene paleoenvironments of the near east
  • From hunter-gatherers to village farmers : the role of climate change in the origins of agriculture
  • Early complex societies : climate change and collapse of early bronze age societies
  • Empires in the desert : political ecology of ancient empires
  • Civilizing climate.