Climate change and human responses : a zooarchaeological perspective

• Other Authors: Monks, Gregory G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, [2017]
• Series: Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
• Subjects: Human beings > Effect of climate on.; Nature > Effect of human beings on.; Human geography > Climatic factors.; Animal remains (Archaeology); Environmental archaeology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9789402411065; 9789402411058
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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...

Table of 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.