Comparative archaeology and paleoclimatology
Subtitle: socio-cultural responses to a changing world
By: edited by Maximilian O. Baldia, Timothy K. Perttula, Douglas S. Frink
Series: BAR International Series -- 2456; BAR international series -- 2456.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781407310640
Subjects: Social archaeology; Paleoclimatology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Paleoclimate and socio-cultural change in the New World. Dangerous regions : a source of cascading cultural changes / Joel D. Gunn, William J. Folan, and Joseph M. Herbert ; Risky business : Caddo farmers living at the edge of the eastern woodlands / Timothy K. Perttula ; Environmental chance, population movements, and the archaeological record / Dean R. Snow; title: Pt. 2. Paleoclimate and socio-cultural change in the Old World : Africa. Climate, culture, and change : from hunters to herders in northeastern and southwestern Africa / Ralf Vogelsang and Birgit Keding ; Fits and starts : why did domesticated animals 'trickle' before they 'splashed' into sub-Saharan Africa? / David K. Wright ; Socio-cultural responses to a changing environment : the Shashe-Limpopo Valley since ca. AD 900 / Munyaradzi Manyanga; title: Pt. 3. Paleoclimate and socio-cultural change in the Old World : Europe. Mesolithic settlements of the Ukrianian steppes : migration as sociocultural response to a changing world / Olena V. Smyntyna ; The early megaliths of SW Atlantic Europe and the inference of the socio-economic organization of their builders (8th to 6th millenniums BC) / David Calado ... [et al.] ; Pre-neolithiziation : reconstructing the environmental background to life way changes in the late Mesolithic of the Carpathian Basin / Pál Sümegi ; The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Carpathian Basin : was there an ecological trap during the Neolithic? / Pál Sümegi ... [et al.] ; New data concerning the detection and nature of human impact on the Mohos Lakes, Northeast Hungary / Imola Juhász ; Late Neolithic man and environment in the Carpathian Basin : a preliminary geoarcheological report from Csöszhalom at Polgár / Pál Sümegi ... [et al.] ; Freshwater mussels and life in the late Neolithic tell of Hódmezövásárhely-Gorzsa, southeastern Hungary / Sándor Gulyás and Pál Sümegi ; Imprints of the anthropogenic influences in a peat bog from Transdanubia, Hungary / Imola E. Juhász ; Breaking unnatural barriers : comparative archaeology, climate, and culture change in central and northern Europe (6100-2700 BC) / Maximilian O. Baldia ; Cultural geography in the context of climatic and environmental change in the late Neolithic and Eneolithic of the Morava Valley / Matthew T. Boulanger ; Taphonomic processes affecting monumental earthen architecture as a proxy for climatic change / Douglas S. Frink ; Neolithic settlement in the Central-European Mountains / Pawel Valde-Nowak ; Separating natural and anthropogenic influences on past ecosystems : the testate amoebae and quantitative paleoenvironmental reconstruction / Edward A.D. Mitchell ; Environmental and cultural change in the Alps : seeking continuity in the Bronze Age lake-dwelling tradition / Francesco Menotti; title: Society and ecology during the middle Bronze Age of southern Scandinavia / Lars Larsson.