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Droughts, food, and culture : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory /
Recent droughts in Africa and elsewhere in the world, from China to Peru, have serious implications for food security and grave consequences for local and international politics. The issues do not just concern the plight of African peoples, but also our global ecological future. Global climatic chan...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Palaeoclimate, food and culture change in Africa : an overview / F.A. Hassan
- Rapid Holocene climate changes in the eastern Mediterranean / E.J. Rohling [and others]
- Climate during the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel : evolution and consequences on human settlement / R. Vernet
- Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic changes in the Central Sahara : the case study of the southwestern Fezzan, Libya / M. Cremaschi
- Late Holocene climatic fluctuations and historical records of famine in Ethiopia / M.U. Mohammed and R. Bonnefille
- Environmental and human responses to climatic events in West and West Central Africa during the Late Holocene / M.A. Sowunmi
- Regional pathways to agriculture in Northeast Africa / H.N. Barakat
- From hunters and gatherers to food producers : new archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence from the West African Sahel / P. Breunig and K. Neumann
- Holocene climatic changes in the eastern Mediterranean and the spread of food production from Southwest Asia to Egypt / M. Rossignol-Strick
- Sustainable agriculture in a harsh environment : and Ethiopian perspective / A. Butler
- Evidence for the earliest livestock in North Africa : or adventures with large bovids, ovicaprids, dogs and pigs / A. Gautier
- Cultural reponses to climatic changes in North Africa : beginning and spread of pastoralism in the Sahara / B.E. Barich
- Dry climatic events and cultural trajectories : adjusting Middle Holocene pastoral economy of the Libyan Sahara / S. di Lernia
- Food security in Western and Central Africa during the Late Holocene : the role of domestic stock keeping, hunting and fishing / W. Van Neer
- Bovines in Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic iconography / S. Hendrickx
- Ecological changes and food security in the later prehistory of North Africa : looking forward / F.A. Hassan.