Human Societies Facing Climate Change: Volume 3

Determinisms in Prehistoric Societies: Climate Changes, Environments, Functional Constraints and Cultural Tradition

Editorial coordination by François Djindjian

Book cover: Human Societies Facing Climate Change: Volume 3

Paperback (Published)

(November 2024)

ISBN: 9781803278919

6.85 x 9.65 inches

Price: $63.00

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Collected papers from a symposium organized by the International Academy of Prehistory and Protohistory (AIPP) in Paris, 2023. The chosen theme “Determinisms in prehistoric societies: climate change, environments, functional constraints and cultural traditions” is part of the project “Human societies in the face of climate change”.


Ce volume contient les communications donnees dans le cadre d’un symposium organise par l’Academie Internationale de Prehistoire et de Protohistoire (AIPP) a l’Institut de Paleontologie Humaine a Paris, le 3 juin 2023. Le theme choisi Determinismes dans les societes prehistoriques : changements climatiques, environnements, contraintes fonctionnelles et traditions culturelles s’inscrit dans le cadre du Projet Societes humaines face aux changements climatiques soutenu par l’Union academique Internationale (UAI).

Foreword

 

Avant-propos

Quantification of morphological variability expressed by a “log sem” statistic in the context of human evolution (Australopithecus, Paranthropus and early Homo) – Francis Thackeray

 

L’importance du déterminisme climatique dans l’évolution de l’Humanité – François Djindjian

 

Cultural evolution as the emperor’s new clothes – Martin Oliva

 

Le Mézinien : un exemple d’adaptation climatique et culturelle aux steppes froides d’Europe orientale: état actuel des recherches, des discussions et des interprétations – Lioudmila Iakovleva

 

The evidence for fishing in the Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Northwestern Poland – Jacek Kabaciński

The turn to sedentary life at the edge of Southeast and Central Europe – Eszter Bánffy

Cultural changes consequential to the formation of Neolithic way of living: The Upper Euphrates – Upper Tigris Basin – Mehmet Özdoğan

 

The Rajajil Cultures. Socio-economic and cultural evolution interacting with climate oscillations in Northwestern Arabia (5th – early 4th millennium BCE) – Hans Georg K. Gebel

Leceia, Moita da Ladra and Outeiro Redondo: Similarities and differences between three walled sites of Portuguese Extremadura – João Luís Cardoso

 

The large stones of the Neolithic Age. Menhirs and stelae – Svend Hansen

  • Editorial coordination by François Djindjian