| Contents |
Holocene climate and society : civilization and climate revisited -- Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant : principles of climatic reconstruction in the near east -- Land and history : introduction to the modern landscape and historical framework -- Paleoenvironments of the near east : the retreat of the pleistocene -- Holocene paleoenvironments of the near east -- From hunter-gatherers to village farmers : the role of climate change in the origins of agriculture -- Early complex societies : climate change and collapse of early bronze age societies -- Empires in the desert : political ecology of ancient empires -- Civilizing climate. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006021682 |
| ISBN | 075910493X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780759104938 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0759104948 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780759104945 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
