Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China
DB Madsen editor F Chen editor X Gao editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Elsevier Science & Technology
Published:10th May '07
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Now a subject of intensive study, this book reports on the critical transition from the foragers of the Paleolithic to the farmers of the Neolithic.
Exploring the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic, this work strives to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period.Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign visitation, there is now an increasing understanding of the foraging strategies which led both to the development of millet agriculture and to the utilization of the extreme environments of the Tibetan Plateau. This text explores the transition from the foraging societies of the Late Paleolithic to the emergence of settled farming societies and the emergent pastoralism of the middle Neolithic striving to help answer the diverse and numerous questions of this critical transitional period.
ISBN: 9780444529626
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 970g
244 pages