"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso,
"One of the volumes of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ), which was held in Paris (France) 23rd-28th August 2010." (Conference organizers' preface)
Contents:
1. Introduction: Why this volume? / Gregory G. Monks -- Part I. The Pleistocene-Holocene transition. 2. The southern Levant during the Last Glacial and zooarchaeological evidence for the effects of climate-forcing on hominin population dynamics / Miriam Belmaker ; 3. Quaternary mammals, people, and climate change : a view from southern North America / Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Eileen Johnson, José Ruiz-González, Enrique Martínez-Hernández, Jorge Gama-Castro, Patricia de Anda-Hurtado and Oscar J. Polaco ; 4. Holocene large mammal extinctions in Palawan Island, Philippines / Janine Ochoa and Philip J. Piper ; 5. Human response to climate change in the northern Adriatic during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene / Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch and Preston T. Miracle -- Part II. The early-mid-Holocene. 6. Early to middle Holocene climatic change and the use of animal resources by highland hunter-gatherers of the south-central Andes / Hugo D. Yacobaccio, Marcelo Morales and Celeste Samec ; 7. Climate change at the Holocene Thermal Maximum and its impact on wild game populations in south Scandinavia / Ola Magnell -- Part III. The recent Holocene. 8. Oxygen isotope seasonality determinations of marsh clam shells from prehistoric shell middens in Nicaragua / André C. Colonese, Ignacio Clemente, Ermengol Gassiot and José Antonio López-Sáez ; 9. Climatic changes and hunter-gatherer populations : archaeozoological trends in southern Patagonia / Diego Rindel, Rafael Goñi, Juan Bautista Belardi and Tirso Bourlot ; 10. Evidence of changing climate and subsistence strategies among the Nuu-chah-nulth of Canada's west coast / Gregory G. Monks ; 11. Biometry and climate change in Norse Greenland : the effect of climate on the size and shape of domestic mammals / Julia E.M. Cussans -- Part IV. Overview and retrospective. 12. Zooarchaeology in the 21st century : comments on the contributions / Daniel H. Sandweiss