Megadrought and collapse : from early agriculture to Angkor /
"Megadrought and Collapse is the first book to treat in one volume the current paleoclimatic and archaeological evidence of megadrought events coincident with major prehistoric and historical examples of societal collapse. Previous works have offered multi-causal explanations for collapse, from...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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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, Avner Ayalon
- 6600-6000 cal BP abrupt climate change and neolithic dispersal from west Asia / Bernard Weninger, 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, Elise Van Campo
- Ad 550-600 collapse at Teotihuacan : testing a climate forcing from a 2400-year Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction / Matthew S. Lachniet, Juan Pablo Bernal-Uruchurtu
- AD 750-1100 climate change and critical transitions in classic Maya sociopolitical networks / Douglas J. Kennett, David A. Hodell
- Twelfth century AD: climate, environment, and the Tiwanaku State / Lonnie Thompson, 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, 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, Shi-Yu Simon Wang.