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Hunter-gatherer behavior : human response during the Younger Dryas / edited by Metin I. Eren.

Contributor(s): Eren, Metin I, 1982-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2012. Description: 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9781598746020 (hardback : alk. paper); 1598746022 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): From 2 million years ago | Hunting and gathering societies | Human beings -- Effect of climate on | Paleoclimatology -- Quaternary | Climatic changes -- HistoryGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 306.3/64 LOC classification: GN388 | .H84 2012
Contents:
On Younger Dryas climate change as a causal determinate of prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture change / Metin I. Eren -- Climate, technology, and society during the terminal Pleistocene period in South America / Tom D. Dillehay -- The human colonization of the high Andes and southern South America during the cold pulses of the late Pleistocene / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Kelp forests, coastal migrations, and the Younger Dryas : late Pleistocene and earliest Holocene human settlement, subsistence, and ecology on California's Channel Islands / Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson -- Evaluating the effect of the Younger Dryas on human population histories in the southeastern United States / Scott C. Meeks and David G. Anderson -- Hunter-gatherer adaptations of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains of western North America / Jason M. LaBelle -- Coping with the Younger Dryas in the heart of Europe / Michael Jochim -- Europe in the Younger Dryas : animal resources, settlement, and funerary behavior / Stella M. Blockley and Clive S. Gamble -- The Younger Dryas and hunter-gatherer transitions to food production in the Near East / Cheryl A. Makarewicz -- The Younger Dryas in arid northeast Asia / Joshua Wright and Liza Janz -- Looking for the Younger Dryas / David J. Meltzer and Ofer Bar-Yosef.
Summary: Major global climate event called the Younger Dryas dramatically affected local environments and human populations at the end of the Pleistocene. This volume is the first book in fifteen years to comprehensively address key questions regarding the extent of this event and how hunter-gatherer populations adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change. An integrated set of theoretical articles and important case studies, written by well-known archaeologists, provide an excellent reference for researchers studying the end of the Pleistocene, as well as those studying hunter-gatherers and their response to climate change.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Younger Dryas climate change as a causal determinate of prehistoric hunter-gatherer culture change / Metin I. Eren -- Climate, technology, and society during the terminal Pleistocene period in South America / Tom D. Dillehay -- The human colonization of the high Andes and southern South America during the cold pulses of the late Pleistocene / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Kelp forests, coastal migrations, and the Younger Dryas : late Pleistocene and earliest Holocene human settlement, subsistence, and ecology on California's Channel Islands / Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson -- Evaluating the effect of the Younger Dryas on human population histories in the southeastern United States / Scott C. Meeks and David G. Anderson -- Hunter-gatherer adaptations of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains of western North America / Jason M. LaBelle -- Coping with the Younger Dryas in the heart of Europe / Michael Jochim -- Europe in the Younger Dryas : animal resources, settlement, and funerary behavior / Stella M. Blockley and Clive S. Gamble -- The Younger Dryas and hunter-gatherer transitions to food production in the Near East / Cheryl A. Makarewicz -- The Younger Dryas in arid northeast Asia / Joshua Wright and Liza Janz -- Looking for the Younger Dryas / David J. Meltzer and Ofer Bar-Yosef.

Major global climate event called the Younger Dryas dramatically affected local environments and human populations at the end of the Pleistocene. This volume is the first book in fifteen years to comprehensively address key questions regarding the extent of this event and how hunter-gatherer populations adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change. An integrated set of theoretical articles and important case studies, written by well-known archaeologists, provide an excellent reference for researchers studying the end of the Pleistocene, as well as those studying hunter-gatherers and their response to climate change.