Research Catalog

Title

Third millennium BC climate change and old world collapse / edited by H. Nüzhet Dalfes, George Kukla, Harvey Weiss.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Dalfes, H. Nüzhet (Hasan Nüzhet), 1952-
• Kukla, G.
• Weiss, Harvey, 1945-
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Third Millennium BC Abrupt Climate Change and Old World Social Collapse (1994 : Kemer Bucağı, Antalya ̇Ili, Turkey)

Description

xiv, 728 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series I, Global environmental change ; vol. 49

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series I, Global environmental change ; v. 49.

Subjects

• Climatic changes > Social aspects > History > Congresses
• Human beings > Climatic factors > History > Congresses

Note

• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Third Millennium BC Abrupt Climate Change and Old World Social Collapse, held at Kemer, Turkey, September 19-24, 1994"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt / Fekri A. Hassan -- Environmental Change and Human Adaptational Failure at the End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Arlene M. Rosen -- Evidence for Mid-Holocene Environmental Change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria / Frank Hole -- Environmental Fluctuations, Agricultural Production and Collapse: A View for Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamia / Tony J. Wilkinson -- The Scenario of Environmental Degradation in the Tell Leilan Region, NE Syria, During the Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change / Marie-Agnes Courty and Harvey Weiss -- Cultural Change in the Aegean c.2200BC / Sturt W. Manning -- The Third Millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric Evidence for Settlement Histories and Socio-cultural Change / Katina T. Lillios -- Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus / Gregory L. Possehl --
• Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt / Karl W. Butzer -- Holocene Climate Change and Man in the Present Day Sahara Desert / Nicole Petite-Maire, L. Beufort and N. Page -- Mid-Holocene Dry Spells in Bohemia, Central Europe / Vaclav Cilek -- Geomorphologic Arguments for Mid- to Late Holocene Environmental Change in Central Anatolian (Pluvial) Lake Basins / Oguz Erol -- The Late Holocene Environmental and Climate Shift in Russia and Surrounding Lands / Constantin V. Krementski -- Environmental and Climatic Changes Between 3 and 5ka BP in Southeastern Ukraine / Natalia P. Gerasimenko -- Mid- to Late Holocene Changes in Central Europe Climate and Man / Klaus D. Jager -- The Age and Causes of Mid-Late Holocene Environmental Change in Southwest Turkey / Neil Roberts, Warren J. Eastwood and Henry F. Lamb [et al.] -- Bronze Age Regression and Change of Sedimentation on The Aegean Coastal Plains of Anatolia (Turkey) / Ilhan Kayan --
• Environmental Changes in Holocene Lacustrine Sequences from Karapinar in the Konya Plain (Turkey) / Catherine Kuzucuoglu, Mustafa Karabiyikoglu and Michel Fontugne [et al.] -- Proxy Indications of Holocene Winter Rains in Southwest Asia Compared with Simulated Rainfall / Reid A. Bryson -- Monsoon Regime Variations During the Late Holocene in the Southwestern India / Ilhem Bentaleb, Claude Caratini and Michel Fontugne [et al.] -- Third Millennium Climate in the Near East Based upon Pollen Evidence / Sytze Bottema -- Middle and Late Holocene Vegetation and Climate Changes in Peninsular Italy / Donatella Magri -- Environmental Changes in Central Europe 5000-3000 BP / Leszek Starkel -- Development of Sediments, Soils, Erosional Events, Molluscan and Vertebrate Assemblages in Connection with Human Impact in Central Europe During the Time Span 3,000 - 5,000 BP / Vojen Lozek --
• High Resolution Simulations of Regional Holocene Climate: North Africa and the Near East / Reid A. Bryson and Robert U. Bryson -- Background of Mid-Holocene Climatic Change in Anatolia and Adjacent Regions / Rhodes Fairbridge, Oguz Erol and Mehmet Karaca [et al.] -- Middle to Late Holocene Changes in Tropical Africa and Other Continents: Paleomonsoon and Sea Surface Temperature Variations / Jean Maley -- Late Holocene Vegetational Changes in South-West Cameroon / Isabelle Reynaud-Farrera -- [actual symbol not reproducible] and Trace Element Measurements as Proxy for the Reconstruction of Climate Changes at Lake Van (Turkey): Preliminary Results / Gerry Lemcke and Michael Sturm -- Climate Change at the End of the Third Millennium BC - Evidence from Varved Lacustrine Sediments / Bernd Zolitschka and J. F. W. Negendank -- Environmental Vulnerability of Early Societies: Some Reflections on Modeling Issues / H. Nuzhet Dalfes --
• Was the Holocene Climate Uniquely Benign or Is the Eemian Catching Cold from the Reinforcement Syndrome Virus? / George Kukla -- Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change and Social Collapse in West Asia and Egypt / Harvey Weiss.

ISBN

3540618929 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

96047093

OCLC

ocm35741821

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries