Culture Change and Continuity in the Eastern Mediterranean during Rapid Climate Change
Assessing the vulnerability of Late Neolithic communities to a ‘Little Ice Age’ in the seventh millennium calBC.
In this study, the author has collected an extensive pool of data in order to get a better understanding of social and biophysical causes and consequences resulting from so-called Rapid Climate Change and impacting on Neolithic populations.
For the first time, a broad and comprehensive scenario has been developed summarising historical developments preceding, accompanying and following this climate event from the 9th to the 7th millennia calBC. The focus lies on Anatolia and the southern Levant. In case studies regarding these two regions, topics like geography, climate, absolute chronology, settlement patterns, animal subsistence, religion and ritual, conflicts are discussed. However, the 7th millennium calBC appears now as an age of crisis, instability and demographic fluctuation, yet at the same time also as an age of unprecedented cultural creativity and innovation.
Hardcover, 269 pages with 97 illustrations and 32 tables
Size 21.0 x 29.7 cm
Price Euro 49.80ISBN: 978-3-86757-367-2
A CRC 806 Monograph from the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Universität zu Köln
VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GmbH - 2016
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