Climate Changes in Ancient Societies - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8763541998 ISBN 13 : 9788763541992

Editeur : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2015

Synopsis

Climate and human responses to it have a strongly interconnected relationship. Thus when climate change occurs, the result of either natural or human causes, societies should react and adapt to these. But do they? If so, what is the nature of that change, and are the responses positive or negative for the long-term survival of social groups? In Climate and Societies, scholars from diverse disciplines includ-ing archaeology, geology and climate sciences explore scientific and material evidence for climate changes in the past, their causes, their effects on ancient societies and how those societies responded. Organized around four key themes each dealing with ways to understand past climates, human impact, and sustainability holocene climate reconstruction; responses of complex societies to climatic variation; Archaeological evidence for pollution and its ecological implica-tions; and stable isotope analysis in the Middle East the chapters demonstrate the value of a longue durée perspective on a topic of crucial importance to the future of our planet. Climate and Ancient Societies is dedicated to the memory of the Danish scholar, zooarchaeologist, Dr. Stine Rossel, University of Copenhagen who died following a freak accident, while hiking with her husband in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (USA), shortly after having submitted her dissertation to Harvard s Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the PhD in Anthropology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susanne Kerner is associate professor at the Institute for Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coeditor of Food and Commensality. Rachael Dann is associate professor of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology at the Institute for Regional and CrossCultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen and coeditor of Egypt. Pernille Bangsgaard is assistant professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8763541998
• ISBN 13: 9788763541992
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 341
• Éditeur: Kerner Susanne, Dann Rachael, Bangsgaard Pernille
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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