Humans and the Environment in Northern Baikal Siberia During the Late Pleistocene
Humans and the Environment in Northern Baikal Siberia During the Late Pleistocene

Author: E.M. Ineshin

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-08-21

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1527500837

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The site of Bol’shoy Yakor’ I is one of the most intensively investigated Late Pleistocene sites in Eastern Siberia. This volume compiles and presents the outcome of more than three decades of research by the authors in English for the first time. The site, discussed in the context of the landscape that surrounds it and the wider archaeology of the region, is considered as a palimpsest of activity, built up through repeated episodes of activity. Through a detailed study of the techniques of lithic production and animal exploitation, these activities are refitted into the seasonal cycles of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers who performed them. This book represents a valuable source for regional experts, technical specialists, and students with an interest in the Upper Palaeolithic of Northern Eurasia.

Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory

Author: Peter Jordan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1107118247

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Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia
The Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia

Author: Vitaly A. Kashin

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-01-26

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1803273917

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This volume combines details of discoveries of Palaeolithic sites in a vast region of Northeast Asia (covering mostly the northeastern part of modern Russia), and meticulous analysis of hypotheses, ideas, and concepts related to the Northeast Asian Palaeolithic.

Climate Changes in the Holocene:
Climate Changes in the Holocene:

Author: Eustathios Chiotis

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1351260235

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This book highlights climate as a complex physical, chemical, biological, and geological system, in perpetual change, under astronomical, predominantly, solar control. It has been shaped to some degree through the past glaciation cycles repeated in the last three million years. The Holocene, the current interglacial epoch which started ca. 11,700 years ago, marks the transition from the Stone Age to the unprecedented cultural evolution of our civilization. Significant climate changes have been recorded in natural archives during the Holocene, including the rapid waning of ice sheets, millennial shifting of the monsoonal fringe in the northern hemisphere, and abrupt centennial events. A typical case of severe environmental change is the greening of Sahara in the Early Holocene and the gradual desertification again since the fifth millennium before present. Climate Changes in the Holocene: Impact, Adaptation, and Resilience investigates the impact of natural climate changes on humans and civilization through case studies from various places, periods, and climates. Earth and human society are approached as a complex system, thereby emphasizing the necessity to improve adaptive capacity in view of the anthropogenic global warming and ecosystem degradation. Features: Written by distinguished experts, the book presents the fundamentals of the climate system, the unparalleled progress achieved in the last decade in the fields of intensified research for improved understanding of the carbon cycle, climate components, and their interaction. Presents the application of paleoclimatology and modeling in climate reconstruction. Examines the new era of satellite-based climate monitoring and the prospects of reduced carbon dioxide emissions.

Manak-na’s Story: 75,000 BC
Manak-na’s Story: 75,000 BC

Author: Bonnye Matthews

Publisher: Publication Consultants

Published: 2013-07-29

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1594333742

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"Bonnye Matthews is America’s preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress. Manak-na's Story, 75,000 BC is book 2 in the popular Winds of Change series, a prehistoric fiction series on the peopling of the Americas. Manak-na hears of an opportunity to take a great adventure. He has raised his children and feels that his time has come to live his dream. Manak-na adventures from China/Mongolia by boat to Mexico and returns, having promised his wife he will limit his adventures to one. Can he keep his promise? The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago? "What author Bonnye Mathews has managed to do is to expertly craft a series of notably entertaining novels that incorporates new data into an historical fictional accounts that bring these ancient peoples alive." -Midwest Book Review

Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies
Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

Author: Brian Adams

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-05-06

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781444311969

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Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies provides a detailed examination of the Paleolithic procurement and utilization of the most durable material in the worldwide archaeological record. The volume addresses sites ranging in age from some of the earliest hominin occupations in eastern and southern Africa to late Pleistocene and post-Pleistocene occupations in North American and Australia. The Early Paleolithic in India and the Near East, the Middle Paleolithic in Europe, and the Late Paleolithic in Europe and eastern Asia are also considered. The authors include established researchers who provide important synthetic statements updated with new information. Recent data are reported, often by younger scholars who are becoming respected members of the international research community. The authors represent research traditions from nine countries and therefore provide insight into the scholarly present as well as the Paleolithic past. Attempts are frequently made to relate lithic procurement and utilization to the organization of societies and even broader concerns of hominin behaviour. The volume re-evaluates existing interpretations in some instances by updating previous work of the authors and offers provocative new interpretations that at times call into question some basic assumptions of the Paleolithic. This book will be invaluable reading for advanced students and researchers in the fields of palaeolithic archaeology, geoarchaeology, and anthropology.

Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia
Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia

Author: Yousuke Kaifu

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 1019

ISBN-13: 1623492777

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Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world. Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this book gathers the work of archaeologists from the Pacific Rim of Asia, Australia, and North America, to address the relative lack of attention given to the emergence of modern human behavior as manifested in Asia during the worldwide dispersal from Africa.

People in the Americas Before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded
People in the Americas Before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded

Author: Bonnye Matthews

Publisher: Publication Consultants

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1594337365

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WARNING: Everything you know about the peopling of the Americas is wrong. People in the Americas before the Last Ice Age Glaciation Concluded: An Emerging Paradigm on Western Hemisphere Population Origin covers the turn of the century emerging science on the origin of human population in the western hemisphere. It is a booklet that is designed to provide a reference bridge until the new information can be included in textbook presentations. With the ability to examine DNA evidence on extremely old human remains and findings at greater depth than formerly considered, information grows at a rapid rate. The science is in its infancy, but surprising finds occur moment by moment.

Zamimolo’s Story, 50,000 BC
Zamimolo’s Story, 50,000 BC

Author: Bonnye Matthews

Publisher: Publication Consultants

Published: 2014-04-12

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1594334579

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"Bonnye Matthews is America’s preeminent writer of prehistoric history." - Grace Cavelieri of The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress Zamimolo’s Story,50,000 BC is book 3 in the popular Winds of Change series. Follow Zamimolo on his quest to rescue Olomaru-mia, the woman who was to be his wife. They face significant environmental changes in their new land from temperature change and lack of seasonal variation. More importantly, they face an entirely different set of living creatures. They are surrounded by Volkswagen-sized armadillos, twenty-foot tall sloths, terror birds, and short-trunked camels. Less than a day after their arrival, a significant event occurs that has a profound effect on Zamimolo. Read to see how the People manage with this huge change, some of which involves several different groups of people already living in the area before they arrive. The Winds of Change novel series views the peopling of the Americas primarily from research over the last 15 years. The series takes the "what if" perspective. What might it have been like if the Americas abounded in human life long before 12,000 years ago? "What author Bonnye Mathews has managed to do is to expertly craft a series of notably entertaining novels that incorporates new data into an historical fictional accounts that bring these ancient peoples alive." -Midwest Book Review