Human Environment Interactions - Volume 2 - Reconstructing the Natural and Anthropogenic Landscape

The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs. Domestication of crops and animals and the resultant intensification of agriculture lead to profound changes in the impact humans have on the environment. Conversely, as human populations began to increase geologic and climatic factors begin to have a greater impact on civilizations. To understand and reconstruct the complex interplay between humans and the environment over the past ten thousand years requires examination of multiple differing but interconnected aspects of the environment and involves geomorphology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology and paleoclimatology. These Springer Briefs volumes examine the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural environment as reconstructed by the many and varied sub-fields of the Earth Sciences.

List of contents

Foreword by Michelle Goman.- Climatic controls on human development during the Neolithic: new palaeoecological data from the Carrowkeel/Keshcorran area, Western Ireland.- Prehistoric land use in the Mt Trumbull region, NW Arozona.- Geoarchaeology of the floodplain surrounding Tell Qarqur.

Summary

The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs. Domestication of crops and animals and the resultant intensification of agriculture lead to profound changes in the impact humans have on the environment. Conversely, as human populations began to increase geologic and climatic factors begin to have a greater impact on civilizations. To understand and reconstruct the complex interplay between humans and the environment over the past ten thousand years requires examination of multiple differing but interconnected aspects of the environment and involves geomorphology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology and paleoclimatology. These Springer Briefs volumes examine the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural environment as reconstructed by the many and varied sub-fields of the Earth Sciences.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Goman
• Assisted by: Michelle Goman (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2013
• EAN: 9783642368790
• ISBN: 978-3-642-36879-0
• No. of pages: 101
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 198 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 101 p. 32 illus., 16 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences; SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Anthropologie, C, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Climate Change, Anthropology, Physische Geographie und Topographie, Agriculture, environmental science, engineering & technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Earth System Sciences, Physical geography, Environmental Sciences, Agricultural science, Physical geography & topography, Population & demography, Demography, Population and Demography, Holocene;Landuse;Paleoecology;Paleoenvironment;Prehistory