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- Title: Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics
- Author : David G. Anderson, Kirk Maasch & Daniel H. Sandweiss
- Release Date : January 28, 2011
- Genre: Science & Nature,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,Earth Sciences,Environment,Atmosphere,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 23090 KB
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The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became more complex, with early horticultural systems replaced by intensive agriculture and small-scale societies being replaced by larger, more hierarchial organizations. Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics explores the cause and effect relationship between climatic change and cultural transformations across the mid-Holocene (c. 4000 B.C.).Explores the role of climatic change on the development of society around the worldChapters detail diverse geographical regionsCo-written by noted archaeologists and paleoclimatologists for non-specialists