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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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Prospects and challenges for an archaeology of global climate change
TL;DR: Archaeology has a long history of research in reconstructing past environments and in attempting to understand the interactions between climate and human societies as mentioned in this paper. But so far, there has been little attempt by archaeologists to employ this knowledge in the debate over current global climate change.
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Chapter 1 – Climate and culture change: exploring Holocene transitions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how past human cultures have responded to changes in climate and consequent changes in vegetation and precipitation patterns and explain the possible causes of Holocene climate change, also rationalizing the need to study climate and culture change, and particularly events and processes occurring during the mid-Holocene from ca. 9000 to 5000 years ago to help in the modern world.
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Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: A first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies
Alessio Palmisano,Alessio Palmisano,Dan Lawrence,Michelle W. de Gruchy,Andrew Bevan,Stephen Shennan +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term trend in human population and climate from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000-2500 cal. yr. BP) was analyzed using a large corpus of archaeo-demographic data.
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the Southern Levant: synthesis, challenges, recent developments and perspectives
TL;DR: The current state of knowledge regarding Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental changes in the Southern Levant is reviewed, including some examples of more recent developments in palaeenvironmental reconstruction in Israel and the Dead Sea area, and the major challenges researchers face in the region are introduced.
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Archaeological fuel remains as indicators of ancient west Asian agropastoral and land-use systems
Naomi F. Miller,John M. Marston +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how archaeobotanical data can be used to reconstruct agropastoral systems in the different rainfall agriculture environments of northern Mesopotamia and central Anatolia.
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