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.
This volume addresses key questions regarding the extent of the Younger Dryas climate event at the end of the Pleistocene and how hunter-gatherer populations worldwide adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change.
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1 On Younger Dryas Climate Change as a Causal Determinate of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Culture Change |
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2 Climate, Technology, and Society during the Terminal Pleistocene Period in South America |
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3 The Human Colonization of the High Andes and Southern South America during the Cold Pulses of the Late Pleistocene |
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4 Kelp Forests, Coastal Migrations, and the Younger Dryas: Late Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene Human Settlement, Subsistence, and Ecology on California's Channel Islands |
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5 Evaluating the Effect of the Younger Dryas on Human Population Histories in the Southeastern United States |
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6 Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains of Western North America |
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7 Coping with the Younger Dryas in the Heart of Europe |
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8 Europe in the Younger Dryas: Animal Resources, Settlement, and Funerary Behavior |
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9 The Younger Dryas and Hunter-Gatherer Transitions to Food Production in the Near East |
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10 The Younger Dryas in Arid Northeast Asia |
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11 Looking for the Younger Dryas |
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| About the Authors |
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Metin I. Eren is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He has a degree in Anthropology from Harvard College (A.B.), and as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow received degrees in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University (M.A., Ph.D.), as well as in Experimental Archaeology from the University of Exeter, U.K. (M.A.). He is an experienced flintknapper and has conducted research in, and published numerous papers on, the Stone Age of North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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