Megadrought and collapse : from early agriculture to Angkor /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weiss, Harvey, 1945- (Author, Editor)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Droughts > History. Droughts > Social aspects > History. Human beings > Effect of climate on > History. Environmental archaeology. Human ecology > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Harvey Weiss
12,000-11,700 cal BP: the collapse of foraging and origins of cultivation in western Asia / Ofer Bar-Yosef, Miryam Bar-Matthews, and Avner Ayalon
6600-6000 cal BP abrupt climate change and neolithic dispersal from west Asia / Bernard Weninger and Lee Clare
4.2 ka BP megadrought and the Akkadian collapse / Harvey Weiss
3.2 ka BP megadrought and the late Bronze Age collapse / Daniel Kaniewski and Elise Van Campo
Ad 550-600 collapse at Teotihuacan: testing a climate forcing from a 2400-year Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction / Matthew S. Lachniet and Juan Pablo Bernal-Uruchurtu
AD 750-1100 climate change and critical transitions in classic Maya sociopolitical networks / Douglas J. Kennett and David A. Hodell
Twelfth century AD: climate, environment, and the Tiwanaku State / Lonnie Thompson and Alan L. Kolata
Thirteenth century AD: implications of seasonal and annual moisture reconstructions for Mesa Verde, Colorado / David W. Stahle, Dorian J. Burnette, Daniel Griffin, and Edward R. Cook
Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries AD: the case of Angkor and monsoon extremes in mainland southeast Asia / Roland Fletcher, Brendan M. Buckley, Christophe pottier, and Shi-Yu Simon Wang.