Climate Change: An Archaeological Study: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Responded to Global Warming

How prehistoric humans coped with the end of the last Ice Age—and catastrophic global warming.

Global warming is among the most urgent problems facing the world today. Yet many commentators, and even some scientists, discuss it with reference only to the changing climate of the last century or so. John Grainger takes a longer view and draws on the archaeological evidence to show how our ancestors faced up to the ending of the last Ice Age, arguably a more dramatic climate change crisis than...