Rosen, Arlene Miller. <br/><br/>
Civilizing climate :  social responses to climate change in the ancient near East / 
Arlene Miller Rosen. 
 - Lanham :  Altamira Press,  c2007. 
 - xiv, 209 p. :  ill., maps ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index. 
<br/><br/>Holocene climate and society : civilization and climate revisited -- Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant : principles of climatic reconstruction in the near east -- Land and history : introduction to the modern landscape and historical framework -- Paleoenvironments of the near east : the retreat of the pleistocene -- Holocene paleoenvironments of the near east -- From hunter-gatherers to village farmers : the role of climate change in the origins of agriculture -- Early complex societies : climate change and collapse of early bronze age societies -- Empires in the desert : political ecology of ancient empires -- Civilizing climate. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780759104938 075910493 9780759104945 0759104948  £ 20.69 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East.<br/>Climatic changes--Middle East.<br/>Paleoecology--Middle East.<br/>Environmental archaeology--Middle East.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Antiquities.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>CC81  / R671 2007