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Record Nr.

UNINA9911000386103321

Autore

Djindjian François

Titolo

Human Societies Facing Climate Change : Determinisms in Prehistoric Societies: Climate Changes, Environments, Functional Constraints and Cultural Tradition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781803278926

1803278927

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (0 pages)

Collana

Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Series ; ; v.3

Disciplina

363.73874

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Effect of human beings on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Sommaire -- Foreword -- Avant-propos -- List of authors / Liste des auteurs -- Quantification of morphological variability expressed by a "log sem" statistic in the context of human evolution (Australopithecus, Paranthropus and early Homo) -- Francis Thackeray -- L'importance du déterminisme climatique dans l'évolution de l'Humanité -- François Djindjian -- Cultural evolution as the emperor's new clothes -- Martin Oliva -- Le Mézinien : un exemple d'adaptation climatique et culturelle aux steppes froides d'Europe orientale: état actuel des recherches, des discussions et des interprétations -- Lioudmila Iakovleva -- The evidence for fishing in the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Northwestern Poland -- Jacek Kabaciński -- The turn to sedentary life at the edge of Southeast and Central Europe -- Eszter Bánffy -- Cultural changes consequential to the formation of Neolithic way of living: The Upper Euphrates - Upper Tigris Basin -- Mehmet Özdoğan -- The Rajajil Cultures. Socio-economic and cultural evolution interacting with climate oscillations in Northwestern Arabia (5th - early 4th millennium BCE) -- Hans Georg K. Gebel -- Leceia, Moita da Ladra and Outeiro Redondo: Similarities and differences between three walled sites of Portuguese Extremadura -- João Luís Cardoso -- The large



stones of the Neolithic Age. Menhirs and stelae -- Svend Hansen.

Sommario/riassunto

Collected papers from a symposium organized by the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory (AIPP) in Paris, 2023. The chosen theme "Determinisms in prehistoric societies: climate change, environments, functional constraints and cultural traditions" is part of the project "Human societies in the face of climate change".