Title: Civilizing climate : social responses to climate change in the ancient Near East /
Authors: Rosen, Arlene Miller.
Publisher: Altamira Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Environmental archaeology Middle East.; Paleoecology Middle East.; Climatic changes Middle East.; Excavations (Archaeology) Middle East; Middle East Antiquities
Contents: 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.