Climate crises in human history / editors, A. Bruce Mainwaring, Robert Giegengack, Claudio Vita-Finzi.

Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 2010.

vii, 216 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Climate crises in human history -- Climate change : past, present, and future / Robert Giegengack and Claudio Vita-Finzi -- Radiocarbon dating and climate change / Sturt W. Manning -- Animals in rock art as climatic indicators / Paul G. Bahn -- AD 536 : The year Merlin (supposedly) died / Richard Hodges -- Did a bolide impact trigger the younger dryas and wipe out American megafauna? Stuart J. Fiedel -- Alluvial history and climate crises / Claudio Vita-Finzi --Pleistocene climate change and human occupation of eastern north Africa / Jennifer R. Smith -- Late middle holocene climate and northern Mesopotamia : varying cultural responses to the 5.2 and 4.2 ka aridification events / Michael D. Danti -- Global change : mapping culture onto climate / Vernon L. Scarborough, William R. Burnside -- Climate, crisis, collapse, and ancient Maya civilization : an enduring debate / Norman Hammond -- Climatic crises and the population history of southeast Asia / Maru Mormina, Charles Higham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.