Climate change and cultural dynamics

by Daniel H. Sandweiss, Kirk A. Maasch, Anderson, David G.

2007 604 pages eng

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became…