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Civilizing climate : social responses to climate change in the ancient near East / Arlene Miller Rosen.

By: Rosen, Arlene MillerMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham : Altamira Press, 2007. Description: xiv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780759104938; 075910493X; 9780759104945; 0759104948Subject(s): Environmental archaeology -- Middle East | Paleoecology -- Middle East | Climatic changes -- Middle East | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East | 38.23 palaeo-ecology | 15.51 Antiquity | Antiquities | Climatic changes | Environmental archaeology | Excavations (Archaeology) | Paleoecology | Climate changes | Society | Antiquity | Miljoarkeologi -- Mellanostern | Paleoekologi -- Mellanostern | Klimat -- historia -- Mellanostern -- forntiden | Klimatforandringar -- Mellanostern | Utgravningar -- Mellanostern | Middle East -- Antiquities | Moyen-Orient -- Antiquites | Middle East | Middle East | Mellanostern -- fornlamningarDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC81 | .R67 2007Other classification: 38.23 | 15.51
Contents:
Holocene climate and society : civilization and climate revisited -- Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant : principles of climatic reconstruction in the near east -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-202) and index.

Holocene climate and society : civilization and climate revisited -- Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant : principles of climatic reconstruction in the near east -- 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.