Overview
- Provides insights into occupational sites through animal bones and food remains
- Gives an in-depth view on past relationships between people and their environments in the context of climatic change
- Includes studies with a temporal scope ranging from the Pleistocene to the Late Holocene, and a geographic scope covering Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Pleistocene – Holocene Transition
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The Recent Holocene
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Overview and Retrospective
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About this book
This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change. In particular, the chapters show how these responses are seen in the animal remains that people left behind in their occupation sites. Many of these bones represent food remains, so the environments in which these animals lived can be identified and human use of those environments can be understood. In the case of climatic change resulting in environmental change, these animal remains can indicate that a change has occurred, in climate, environment and human adaptation, and can also indicate the specific details of those changes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and Human Responses
Book Subtitle: A Zooarchaeological Perspective
Editors: Gregory Monks
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1106-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1105-8Published: 30 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1490-5Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1106-5Published: 21 March 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 232
Number of Illustrations: 63 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Archaeology, Zoology, Geoecology/Natural Processes