Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions - Volume 1

Interpreting Desert and Fluvial Environments
2012
ISBN: 978-3-642-23758-4
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 55 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 113 g

Reihe: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences

The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs.  Domestication of crops and animals and the resultant intensification of agriculture lead to profound changes in the impact humans have on the environment.  Conversely, as human populations began to increase geologic and climatic factors begin to have a greater impact on civilizations.  To understand and reconstruct the complex interplay between humans and the environment over the past ten thousand years requires examination of multiple differing but interconnected aspects of the environment and involves geomorphology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology and paleoclimatology.  These Springer Briefs volumes examine the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural environment as reconstructed by the many and varied sub-fields of the Earth Sciences.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

McLaurin, Brett T.

Torres, Nalini

Elliott, Aileen C.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Michelle Goman.- Genesis of an artifact layer at the La Playa archaeological site, Sonora, Mexico.- Quaternary stratigraphy of the La Playa archaeological site, Northern Sonora, Mexico.- The Red River raft and its sedimentological implications.