AU - Rosen,Arlene Miller TI - Civilizing climate: social responses to climate change in the ancient near East SN - 9780759104938 AV - CC81 R671 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Lanham PB - Altamira Press KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Middle East KW - Climatic changes KW - Paleoecology KW - Environmental archaeology KW - Antiquities N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index; 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 ER -