The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past

"The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking...

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Other Authors: Contreras, Daniel A. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New York Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2017
Series:Routledge studies in archaeology 21
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