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Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: A View from South Asian Prehistory

Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: A View from South Asian Prehistory

Robbins Schug, Gwen

Paperback

Series: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local,

ArchaeologyIndian & South Asian HistoryWeather

ISBN10: 0813054125
ISBN13: 9780813054124
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Florida
Published: Feb 7 2017
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.

In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.

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