Giosan / Fuller / Nicoll Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-70464-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 198, 226 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Geophysical Monograph Series

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 198.
Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations brings together a collection of studies on the history of complex interrelationships between humans and their environment by integrating Earth science with archeology and anthropology. At a time when climate change, overpopulation, and scarcity of resources are increasingly affecting our ways of life, the lessons of the past provide multiple reference frames that are valuable for informing our future decisions and action plans. Volume highlights include discussions of multiple connotations of the Anthropocene, landscapes as a link between climate and humans, synoptic approaches to explore large-scale cultural patterns, regional studies for contextualizing cultural complexity, and environmental determinism and social theory. Straddling the fields of Earth sciences, anthropology, and archaeology and presenting research from across several continents, Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations will appeal to a wide readership among scientists, scholars, and the public at large.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giosan, Liviu

Fuller, Dorian Q.

Nicoll, Kathleen

Flad, Rowan K.

Clift, Peter D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Liviu Giosan, Dorian Q. Fuller, Kathleen Nicoll, Rowan K. Flad,and Peter D. Clift vii
Bridging a Disciplinary Gap
William F. Ruddiman 1
Section I: Americas
Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas ImpactEvent
M. Boslough, K. Nicoll, V. Holliday, T. L. Daulton, D. Meltzer,N. Pinter, A. C. Scott, T. Surovell, P. Claeys, J. Gill, F. Paquay,J. Marlon, P. Bartlein, C. Whitlock, D. Grayson, and A. J. T.Jull 13
Environment and Agency in the Ancient Maya Collapse
James J. Aimers 27
Rainfall Variability and the Rise and Collapse of theMississippian Chiefdoms: Evidence From a DeSoto CavernsStalagmite
Paul Aharon, David Aldridge, and John Hellstrom 35
Building Resilience in Island Communities: APaleotempestological Perspective
Jago Cooper 43
Recent Seasonal Variations in Arid Landscape Cover and AeolianSand Mobility, Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States
Amy E. Draut, Margaret Hiza Redsteer, and Lee Amoroso 51
Section II: Asia
Utilization of Distal Tephra Records for Understanding Climaticand Environmental Consequences of the Youngest Toba Tuff
Emma Gatti and Clive Oppenheimer 63
An Abrupt Shift in the Indian Monsoon 4000 Years Ago
M. Berkelhammer, A. Sinha, L. Stott, H. Cheng, F. S. R. Pausata,and K. Yoshimura 75
Late Holocene Drought Pattern Over West Asia
Michael Staubwasser 89
Geomorphological Constraints on the Ghaggar River Regime Duringthe Mature Harappan Period
Hideaki Maemoku, Yorinao Shitaoka, Tsuneto Nagatomo, and HiroshiYagi 97
A Simulation of the Neolithic Transition in the IndusValley
Carsten Lemmen and Aurangzeb Khan 107
Mid-to-Late Holocene Agricultural System Transformations in theNorthern Fertile Crescent: A Review of the Archaeobotanical,Geoarchaeological, and Philological Evidence
Simone Riehl, Konstantin Pustovoytov, Aron Dornauer, and WaltherSallaberger 115
Late Holocene Evolution of the Fuzhou Basin (Fujian, China) andthe Spread of Rice Farming
Barry V. Rolett 137
Climate-Induced Changes in Population Dynamics of SiberianScythians (700-250 B.C.)
Irina P. Panyushkina 145
Section III: Africa
Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Holocene Climate Change as aCivilizing Factor in the Egyptian Sahara
Kathleen Nicoll 157
Heavy Rainfalls in a Desert(ed) City: A Climate-ArchaeologicalCase Study From Sudan
Jonas Berking, Janina Körper, Sebastian Wagner, UlrichCubasch, and Brigitta Schütt 163
Section IV: Europe
The Influence of Transgressive Paleogeography on the Developmentand Decline of Cardium Pottery Culture (MediterraneanNeolithic)
A. Amorosi and A. Morelli 171
A Dynamic Human Socioecology of Prehistoric and ProtohistoricUlster
Tina Thurston and Gill Plunkett 177
Section V: New Approaches and Discussions
Influences of Active Tectonism on Human Development: A Reviewand Neolithic Example
Eric R. Force and Bruce G. McFadgen 195
Irragric Anthrosols--Artifacts of Human Adaptation to AridConditions: Examples From the High Himalaya and the Coastal Desertof Peru
J. Baade 203
Hunter-Gatherers, Agriculturalists, and Climate: Insights From aCross-Disciplinary Review
Daniel M. Cadzow 209
AGU Category Index 217
Index 219