Civilizing climate
Subtitle: social responses to climate change in the ancient near East
By: Arlene Miller Rosen.
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780759104938; 9780759104945
Subjects: Environmental archaeology -- Middle East; Paleoecology -- Middle East; Climatic changes -- Middle East; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East; Middle East -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Holocene climate and society : civilization and climate revisited; title: Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant : principles of climatic reconstruction in the near east; title: Land and history : introduction to the modern landscape and historical framework; title: Paleoenvironments of the near east : the retreat of the pleistocene; title: Holocene paleoenvironments of the near east; title: From hunter-gatherers to village farmers : the role of climate change in the origins of agriculture; title: Early complex societies : climate change and collapse of early bronze age societies; title: Empires in the desert : political ecology of ancient empires; title: Civilizing climate.