Climate Changes in the Holocene:: Impacts and Human Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9780815365938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 406 str.

Eustathios Chiotis

Opis

Palaeoclimatology is the study of past climates and climate change, and uses a variety of methods to obtain data preserved within rocks, sediments, ice, tree rings, and shells and other matter. Studies of past changes in the environment and biodiversity can reflect on the current state of the environment, the impacts of climate on mass extinctions, adaptations, migrations, etc. This book focuses on the Holocene Epoch (approximately 11,700 years ago to the present day), and shows how climate changes can be reliably correlated with archaeological evidence. It will examine the impact of climate changes on humans and civilization through case studies from various places, periods, and climates.