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Third millennium BC climate change and old world collapse /
Around 4000 years ago the advanced urban civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and India suddenly collapsed. What happened? Did a prolonged drought cause the breakdown of social order? Recent discoveries from all over the world strongly support the suspected link of the collapse with climate. The volu...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Collectivités auteurs: | , |
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| Format: | Électronique Actes de congrès eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
©1997.
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| Collection: | NATO ASI series. Global environmental change ;
vol. 49. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Nile Floods and Political Disorder in Early Egypt / Fekri A. Hassan
- Environmental Change and Human Adaptational Failure at the End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant / Arlene M. Rosen
- Evidence for Mid-Holocene Environmental Change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria / Frank Hole
- Environmental Fluctuations, Agricultural Production and Collapse: A View for Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamia / Tony J. Wilkinson
- The Scenario of Environmental Degradation in the Tell Leilan Region, NE Syria, During the Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change / Marie-Agnes Courty and Harvey Weiss
- Cultural Change in the Aegean c.2200BC / Sturt W. Manning
- The Third Millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric Evidence for Settlement Histories and Socio-cultural Change / Katina T. Lillios
- Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus / Gregory L. Possehl.