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The long summer : how climate changed civilization / Brian Fagan

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Author:
Fagan, Brian M  Search this
Physical description:
xvii, 284 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2004
C2004
Contents:
The threshold of vulnerability -- The late Ice Age orchestra, 18,000 to 13,500 B.C. -- The virgin continent, 15,000 to 11,000 B.C. -- Europe during the Great Warming, 15,000 to 11,000 B.C. -- The thousand-year drought, 11,000 to 10,000 B.C. -- The cataclysm, 10,000 to 4000 B.C. -- Droughts and cities, 6200 to 1900 B.C. -- Gifts of the desert, 6000 to 3100 B.C. -- The dance of air and ocean, 2200 to 1200 B.C. -- Celts and Romans, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 900 -- The great droughts, A.D. 1 to 1200 -- Magnificent ruins, A.D. 1 to 1200 -- Epilogue, A.D. 1200 to modern times
Topic:
Climatic changes--Environmental aspects  Search this
Civilization--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_929445