The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

D Degroot, KJ Anchukaitis, JE Tierney… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Evidence of resilience to past climate change in Southwest Asia: Early farming communities and the 9.2 and 8.2 ka events

P Flohr, D Fleitmann, R Matthews, W Matthews… - Quaternary Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Climate change is often cited as a major factor in social change. The so-called 8.2 ka event
was one of the most pronounced and abrupt Holocene cold and arid events. The 9.2 ka …

Synchronous 500-year oscillations of monsoon climate and human activity in Northeast Asia

D Xu, H Lu, G Chu, L Liu, C Shen, F Li, C Wang… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Prehistoric human activities were likely influenced by cyclic monsoon climate changes in
East Asia. Here we report a decadal-resolution Holocene pollen record from an annually …

[کتاب][B] Radiocarbon dating: an archaeological perspective

RE Taylor, O Bar-Yosef - 2016‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

[کتاب][B] Encyclopedia of global archaeology

C Smith - 2014‏ - academia.edu
Archaeology–the study of human cultures through the analysis and interpretation of artifacts
and material remains–continues to captivate and engage people on a local and global level …

[HTML][HTML] Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the 'long'4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and …

J Clarke, N Brooks, EB Banning… - Quaternary Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social
change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel …

Nothing lasts forever: Environmental discourses on the collapse of past societies

GD Middleton - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2012‏ - Springer
The study of the collapse of past societies raises many questions for the theory and practice
of archaeology. Interest in collapse extends as well into the natural sciences and …

Prehistoric demographic fluctuations in China inferred from radiocarbon data and their linkage with climate change over the past 50,000 years

C Wang, H Lu, J Zhang, Z Gu, K He - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Historic human–climate interactions have been of interest to scholars for a long time.
However, exploring the long-term relation between prehistoric demography and climate …

Comparing archaeological proxies for long-term population patterns: An example from central Italy

A Palmisano, A Bevan, S Shennan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Raw counts of archaeological sites, estimates of changing settlement size and summed
radiocarbon probability distributions have all become popular ways to investigate long-term …

Material culture, landscapes of action, and emergent causation: a new model for the origins of the European Neolithic

J Robb - Current anthropology, 2013‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
After a century of research, there is still no widely accepted explanation for the spread of
farming in Europe. Top-down explanations stress climate change, population increase, or …