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Civilizing Climate: Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East
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The role of climate change in the origins of agriculture in the Southern Levant has been investigated in this paper, where the authors present a tool for understanding Paleoenvironments of the Near East.Abstract:
1 Holocent Climate and Society 2 Tools for Understanding Paleoenvironments in the Southern Levant 3 Land and History: Introduction to the Modern Landscape and Historical Framework 4 Paleoenvironments of the Near East: The Retreat of the Pleistocene 5 Holocene Paleoenvironments of the Near East 6 From Hunter-Gatherers to Village Farmers: The Role of Climate Change in the Origins of Agriculture 7 Early Complex Societies: Climate Change and Collapse of Early Bronze Age Societies 8 Empires in the Desert 9 Civilizing Climateread more
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Urban-Riverine Hinterland Synergies in Semi-Arid Environments: Millennial-Scale Change, Adaptations, and Environmental Responses at Gerasa/Jerash
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Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal
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The desert and the sown: Nomad–farmer interactions in the Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan
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Modeling vegetation dynamics in the Southern Levant through the Bronze Age
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