Climate change and human responses : a zooarchaeological perspective /: a zooarchaeological perspective. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gregory G. Monks, editor.
• Editors: Monks, Gregory G
• Contents: Foreword: The Essential Past; References; Conference Organizers' Preface; Volume Editor's Preface; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Why This Volume?; Abstract; The Wider Intellectual Context; The Objective of This Volume; The Papers in This Volume; Acknowledgments; References; The Pleistocene -- Holocene Transition; 2 The Southern Levant During the Last Glacial and Zooarchaeological Evidence for the Effects of Climate-Forcing on Hominin Population Dynamics; Abstract; Introduction; The Levant; Methods; Results; Macromammals; Micromammals; Discussion and Conclusions; Acknowledgments. Dewil Valley ArchaeologyThe Ille Cave Bone Assemblage; Pasimbahan Cave Bone Assemblage; Extinct Mammals; Deer; Tiger; Canid; Trajectories to Extinction; Human Response and Changes in Subsistence Patterns; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 5 Human Response to Climate Change in the Northern Adriatic During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene; Abstract; Introduction; Vela Špilja Lošinj; Overview of the Study Region; Pupićina; Nugljanska; Šebrn Abri; Other Istrian Sites; Vela Spila; Climate and Environment; Pleistocene; Holocene; Sea Level Rise. A Model for Changing Subsistence Patterns at Vela Špilja LošinjOptimal Foraging Theory; The Model; Zooarchaeological Data; Diversification; Intensification; Seasonal Mobility; Discussion; Summary of the Data and its Application to the Model; Diversification; Intensification; Seasonal Mobility; Conclusion; Vela Špilja Lošinj; Implications for Future Research; The Future from the Past; Acknowledgements; References; The Early -- Mid-Holocene; 6 Early to Middle Holocene Climatic Change and the Use of Animal Resources by Highland Hunter-Gatherers of the South-Central Andes; Abstract; Introduction.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 930.1; Human beings -- Climatic factors; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Human geography -- Climatic factors; Animal remains (Archaeology); Environmental archaeology; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Animal remains (Archaeology); Environmental archaeology; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Social Sciences; Anthropology; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Archaeology; Zoology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789402411065; 9402411062
• Related ISBNs: 9789402411058; 9402411054
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 31, 2017).
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