Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Subtitle: The Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Contributors: Lawrence Guy Straus (Editor); Berit Valentin Eriksen (Editor); Jon M. Erlandson (Editor); David R. Yesner (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 30, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780306451775
Subjects: Prehistoric Archaeology; Paleoecology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Science/Mathematics; Archaeology; Social Science / Archaeology; Penology; Agriculture; Effect of climate on; Human beings; Origin; Prehistoric peoples
First sentence: Since hominids began producing archeologically recognizable stone tools about 2.5 million years ago in tropical Africa, the world has undergone some two dozen transitions between glacial and interglacial conditions.