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 more complex, with early horticultural systems replaced by intensive agriculture and small-scale societies being replaced by larger, more hierarchial organizations. Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics explores the cause and effect relationship between climatic change and cultural transformations across the mid-Holocene (c. 4000 B.C.).
- ISBN10 0080554555
- ISBN13 9780080554556
- Publish Date 28 July 2011 (first published 21 November 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Academic Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 602
- Language English