Civilizing Climate Social Responses to

Description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of changes in climate and how that affected social and political developments. Uses 3 major case studies of the Neolithic, Early Bronze, and Roman/Byzantine periods.

Arlene Miller Rosen is a Reader in Environmental Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Figures and Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Holocene Climate and Society: Civilization and Climate Revisited	p. 1
Tools for Understanding Paleoenvironments in the Southern Levant: Principles of Climatic Reconstruction in the Near East	p. 17
Land and History: Introduction to the Modern Landscape and Historical Framework	p. 32
Paleoenvironments of the Near East: The Retreat of the Pleistocene	p. 44
Holocene Paleoenvironments of the Near East	p. 70
From Hunter-Gatherers to Village Farmers: The Role of Climate Change in the Origins of Agriculture	p. 103
Early Complex Societies: Climate Change and Collapse of Early Bronze Age Societies	p. 128
Empires in the Desert: Political Ecology of Ancient Empires	p. 150
Civilizing Climate	p. 172
References	p. 181
Index	p. 203
About the Author	p. 209
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Civilizing Climate Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East

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