Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response During the Younger Dryas

by Metin I Eren (Editor)

Overview

A major global climate event called the Younger Dryas dramatically affected local environments and human populations at the end of the Pleistocene. This volume is the first book in fifteen years to comprehensively address key questions regarding the extent of this event and how hunter-gatherer populations adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change. An integrated set of theoretical articles and important case studies, written by well-known archaeologists, provide an excellent reference for researchers studying the end of the Pleistocene, as well as those studying hunter-gatherers and their response to climate change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598746037
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/31/2013
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 On Younger Dryas Climate Change as a Causal Determinate of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Culture Change, Metin I. Eren; Chapter 2 Climate, Technology, and Society During the Terminal Pleistocene Period in South America, Tom D. Dillehay; Chapter 3 The Human Colonization of the High Andes and Southern South America During the Cold Pulses of the Late Pleistocene, Luis Alberto Borrero; Chapter 4 Kelp Forests, Coastal Migrations, and the Younger Dryas: Late Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene Human Settlement, Subsistence, and Ecology on California's Channel Islands, Torben C. Rick, Jon M. Erlandson; Chapter 5 Evaluating the Effect of the Younger Dryas on Human Population Histories in the Southeastern United States, Scott C. Meeks, David G. Anderson; Chapter 6 Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains of Western North America, Jason M. LaBelle; Chapter 7 Coping with the Younger Dryas in the Heart of Europe, Michael Jochim; Chapter 8 Europe in the Younger Dryas: Animal Resources, Settlement, and Funerary Behavior, Stella M. Blockley, Clive S. Gamble; Chapter 9 The Younger Dryas and Hunter-Gatherer Transitions to Food Production in the Near East, Cheryl A. Makarewicz; Chapter 10 The Younger Dryas in Arid Northest Asia, Joshua Wright, Lisa Janz; Chapter 11 Looking for the Younger Dryas, David J. Meltzer, Ofer Bar-Yosef;