دانلود کتاب Climate Change in Prehistory. The End of the Reign of Chaos

Climate Change in Prehistory explores the challenges that faced humankind in aglacial climate and the opportunities that arose when the climate improveddramatically around 10,000 years ago. Drawing on recent advances in geneticmapping, it presents the latest thinking on how the fluctuations during the ice agedefined the development and spread of modern humans across the Earth. It reviewsthe aspects of our physiology, intellectual development and social behaviourthat have been influenced by climatic factors, and how features of our lives – diet,health and the relationshipwith nature – are also the product of the climate inwhichwe evolved. This analysis is based on the proposition that essential features ofmodern societies – agriculture and urban life – only became possible when theclimate settled down after the chaos of the last ice age. In short: climate change inprehistory has in so many ways made us what we are today.