Quaternary of the Levant - Environments, Climate Change, and Humans

Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution in the Levant.

List of contents

Part I. The Evolution of Current Landscapes and Basins; Part II. Palaeoclimates; Part III. Archaeology of Human Evolution; Part IV. Palaeoecology; Part V. Quaternary Geomorphology; Part VI. Humans in the Levant.

About the author

Yehouda Enzel is a professor and Chair of the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has studied the geomorphology and Quaternary geology of diverse continental environments for over thirty years, as well as aspects of palaeofloods, palaeohydrology, palaeolimnology, dust, loess, and soils. In 2005, Professor Enzel was awarded the Geological Society of America Farouk El-Baz Desert Research Award.Ofer Bar-Yosef is Emeritus Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University. He has been involved in a wide range of prehistoric site excavations since 1959, in Israel, Sinai (Egypt), Turkey, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Georgia, and the People's Republic of China. Professor Bar-Yosef has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) since 2001 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 2005.

Summary

This book presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environment and human evolution. Over eighty contributions from leading researchers review 2.5 million years of environmental change and human cultural evolution, creating an invaluable resource for students, academics and archaeologists.

Product details

• Authors: Yehouda Enzel, Yehouda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ba Enzel, Yehouda Bar-Yosef Enzel
• Assisted by: Ofer Bar-Yosef (Editor), Ofer (Harvard University Bar-Yosef (Editor), Bar-Yosef Ofer (Editor), Yehouda Enzel (Editor), Yehouda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Enzel (Editor), Enzel Yehouda (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107090460
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09046-0
• No. of pages: 784
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, SCIENCE / Paleontology, Middle East, Palaeontology, Historical Geology, Historical geology and palaeogeology