Droughts, Food and Culture
Subtitle: Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780306467554
Subjects: Social issues; Paleoclimatology; Prehistoric Anthropology; Social Science; History - General History; Sociology; Africa; Africa - General; Archaeology; Environmental Science; Social Science / Archaeology; Anthropology - General; Paleontology; Agriculture, Prehistoric; Climatic changes; Food; Prehistoric peoples
First sentence: This book is an attempt to situate archaeology within the domain of contemporary human affairs, and to forge a new methodology for coping with environmental problems from an archaeological perspective.