Paleoeconomics : Climate Change and Economic Development in Prehistory

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910897989803321
• Autore: Olsson Ola
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 3-031-52784-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 pages)
• Disciplina: 330.9012
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- A Paleoeconomic Framework with a Climate Pulse Model -- Relation to Previous Literature -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2: African Origins -- Evolution of Bipedal Hominins -- The Co-evolution of Hominin Factors of Production -- The Origins of Physical Capital -- Homo Ergaster/Erectus Moves Out of Africa -- Control of Fire and the Cooking Hypothesis -- References -- 3: Human Capital Evolution in a Cooling Climate -- The Hominin Family Tree Expands -- A Climate Pulse Model of Human Development -- The Evolution of Human Brain Capacity -- References -- 4: Hunting and Gathering Homo Sapiens -- Climate Change and Early Homo Sapiens -- Life in Refugia During Glacials -- Contemporary Anthropological Evidence -- Models of Hunter-Gatherer Behavior -- Technological Progress and Economic Organization -- Paleogenetics and the Spread of H. Sapiens Across Africa -- Failed Dispersal Out of Africa -- References -- 5: The Out-of-Africa Dispersal -- Colonization of Eurasia: Early Archaeological Evidence -- A Second Wave of Colonizing Eurasia: Genetic Evidence -- The Economics of Range Expansion and Migration -- Exchange and Competition with Other Hominins -- References -- 6: Glacial Adaptations -- The Upper Paleolithic in Europe -- The Settlement of Oceania and America -- Mass Extinctions of Megafauna -- Origins of Ethnic Groups and Genetic Diversity -- References -- 7: Economic Organization ; on the Eve of Agriculture -- Household Formation and Organization -- Economic Diversity and Intensification -- Climate Shocks Ending the Pleistocene -- References -- 8: Domestication of Plants, Animals, and Humans -- Sedentism and Cultivation Experiments in Southwest Asia -- First Emergence of Cereal Cultivation -- Domestication of Animals.; Agricultural Origins in Asia, America, and Africa -- Socioeconomic Implications of Agriculture -- References -- 9: Theories of the Transition to Agriculture -- Stylized Facts and Optimal Foraging Models -- Economic Theories of the Transition to Agriculture -- Population Growth -- Institutional Innovations -- Habitat and Climate Change -- Taking Stock -- Man Domesticates Himself -- References -- 10: Agricultural Intensification, Expansion and Trade -- Reproduction, Health, and Human Capital -- The Economics of Agricultural Expansion -- Early Routes of Agricultural Diffusion -- Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Specialization -- References -- 11: Institutional and Technological Development -- Public Goods and Monuments -- Social Stratification -- Institutions, Cultural Norms, and Economic Behavior -- Spread of Agriculture to Periphery -- Technological Change -- Social Tranformations and Upheaveals -- References -- 12: Models of State Origins -- Defining States -- Theories of State Origins -- Non-transitions to States -- References -- 13: First States I: Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- References -- 14: First States II: Indus, China, Peru, and Mexico -- Indus Valley -- Northern China -- Peru and Mexico -- The Political Economy of Early States -- References -- 15: End of Prehistory -- States Almost Everywhere -- Climate Pulse Model: Recapitulation and Implications -- Climate Change in the Anthropocene -- Three Concluding Reflections -- References -- Index.