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Climate and cultural change in prehistoric Europe and the Near East. IEMA Proceedings. Volume 6

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Title Climate and cultural change in prehistoric Europe and the Near East. IEMA Proceedings. Volume 6 / edited by Peter F. Biehl and Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse.
Publisher Albany, New York : State University of New York Press
Creation Date 2016
Notes Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Content Climate and Culture Change in Archaeology / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse & Peter F. Biehl -- The Oasis of Palmyra in Prehistory : Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Palaeoclimate and Human Occupation in the Region of Palmyra/Tadmor (Central Syria) / Mauro Cremaschi and Andrea Zerboni -- When the Going gets Tough : Risk Minimisation Responses to the 8.2 ka Event in the Near East and their role in Emergence of the Halaf Cultural Phenomenon / Mandy Mottram -- The 8.2 ka event in Upper Mesopotamia : climate and cultural change / Olivier Nieuwenhuyse, Peter Akkermans, Jan van der Plicht, A. Russell and A. Kaneda (Leiden) -- The aftermath of the 8.2 Event : Cultural and Environmental Effects in the Anatolian Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic / Patrick T. Willett, Ingmar Franz, Ceren Kabukcu, David Orton, Jana Rogasch, Elizabeth Stroud, Eva Rosenstock, and Peter F. Biehl -- Managing risk through diversification in plant exploitation during the 7th millennium BC : The phytolith microbotanical record at Çatalhöyük / Philippa Ryan and Arlene Rosen -- The 8.2 Event and the Neolithic Expansion in Western Anatolia / Bleda S. Düring -- "Singing in the Rain" : Khirokitia (Cyprus) in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium cal BC / Odile Daune-Le Brun and Alain Le Brun -- Early Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and Human Responses in Greece / Catherine Perlès -- Rapid climate change and radiocarbon discontinuities in the Mesolithic-Early Neolithic settlement record of the Iron Gates : cause or coincidence? / Clive Bonsall, Mark Macklin, Adina Boronean?, Catriona Pickard, László Bartosiewicz, Gordon Cook, and Thomas Higham -- Climate Fluctuations, Human Migrations, and the Spread of Farming in western Eurasia / Detlef Gronenborn -- Climate Change in the Polish Upland Bronze Age / Andrzej Pelisiak -- Climate and the Definition of Archaeological Periods in Sweden / Daniel Löwenborg and Thomas Eriksson -- Commentary : Epilogue to a Prologue : The Changing Climate of the Past, Present and Future / Ezra B. W. Zubrow.
Series Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
Extent 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2016
National Library system number 997010701204005171
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