From The Pleistocene To The Holocene

Author : Lawrence Guy Straus,Berit Valentin Eriksen,Jon M. Erlandson,David R. Yesner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461311454

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Humans at the End of the Ice Age by Lawrence Guy Straus,Berit Valentin Eriksen,Jon M. Erlandson,David R. Yesner Pdf

Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.

Author : C. Britt Bousman,Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603447607

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From the Pleistocene to the Holocene by C. Britt Bousman,Bradley J. Vierra Pdf

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies. Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing environmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors' research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesizing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current archaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change.

Author : Daniel G. Gavin,Linda B. Brubaker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319110141

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington by Daniel G. Gavin,Linda B. Brubaker Pdf

This study brings together decades of research on the modern natural environment of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, reviews past research on paleoenvironmental change since the Late Pleistocene, and finally presents paleoecological records of changing forest composition and fire over the last 14,000 years. The focus of this study is on the authors’ studies of five pollen records from the Olympic Peninsula. Maps and other data graphics are used extensively. Paleoecology can effectively address some of these challenges we face in understanding the biotic response to climate change and other agents of change in ecosystems. First, species responses to climate change are mediated by changing disturbance regimes. Second, biotic hotspots today suggest a long-term maintenance of diversity in an area, and researchers approach the maintenance of diversity from a wide range and angles (CITE). Mountain regions may maintain biodiversity through significant climate change in ‘refugia’: locations where components of diversity retreat to and expand from during periods of unfavorable climate (Keppel et al., 2012). Paleoecological studies can describe the context for which biodiversity persisted through time climate refugia. Third, the paleoecological approach is especially suited for long-lived organisms. For example, a tree species that may typically reach reproductive sizes only after 50 years and remain fertile for 300 years, will experience only 30 to 200 generations since colonizing a location after Holocene warming about 11,000 years ago. Thus, by summarizing community change through multiple generations and natural disturbance events, paleoecological studies can examine the resilience of ecosystems to disturbances in the past, showing how many ecosystems recover quickly while others may not (Willis et al., 2010).

Author : Meng Zhang
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Limited
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407358480

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Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Microblade-Based Industries in Northeastern Asia by Meng Zhang Pdf

This book provides an explanation of variation and change among late Pleistocene and early Holocene microblade-based societies in northeastern Asia.

Author : Kristen A. Carlson,Leland C. Bement
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781646422265

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Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary by Kristen A. Carlson,Leland C. Bement Pdf

Archaeological research on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods has tended to focus on rock shelters, caves, large game kills, and occasionally butchery sites. Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary examines a diverse range of open-air sites—bounded both naturally and culturally—in Siberia and Germany and throughout North America. Open-air sites are difficult for researchers to locate and, because of depositional processes, often more difficult to interpret; they contain many superimposed events but often show evidence of only the most recent. Working to overcome the limitations of data and poor preservation, using decades of prior research and new analytical tools, and diverging from a one-size-fits-all mode of interpretation, the contributors to this volume offer fresh insight into the formation and taphonomy of open-air sites. Contributors: Douglas B. Bamforth, Ian Buvit, Brian J. Carter, Robin Cordero, Robert Dello-Russo, George C. Frison, Kelly E. Graf, Bruce B. Huckell, Michael A. Jochim, Joshua D. Kapp, Robert L. Kelly, Aleksander V. Konstantinov, Banks Leonard, Madeline E. Mackie, Christopher W. Merriman, Matthew J. O’Brien, Spencer Pelton, Neil N. Puckett, Beth Shapiro, Todd A. Surovell, Karisa Terry, Steve Teteak, Robert Yohe

Author : Ted Goebel,Ian Buvit
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603443210

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From the Yenisei to the Yukon by Ted Goebel,Ian Buvit Pdf

Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior? During the Pleistocene era, the people now known as Beringians dispersed across the varied landscapes of late-glacial northeast Asia and northwest North America. The twenty chapters gathered in this volume explore, in addition to the questions posed above, how Beringians adapted in response to climate and environmental changes. They share a focus on the significance of the modern-human inhabitants of the region. By examining and analyzing lithic artifacts, geoarchaeological evidence, zooarchaeological data, and archaeological features, these studies offer important interpretations of the variability to be found in the early material culture the first Beringians. The scholars contributing to this work consider the region from Lake Baikal in the west to southern British Columbia in the east. Through a technological-organization approach, this volume permits investigation of the evolutionary process of adaptation as well as the historical processes of migration and cultural transmission. The result is a closer understanding of how humans adapted to the diverse and unique conditions of the late Pleistocene.

Author : Miriam Jones,Lesleigh Anderson,Dorothy M. Peteet
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889633371

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North Pacific Environment and Paleoclimate from the Late Pleistocene to Present by Miriam Jones,Lesleigh Anderson,Dorothy M. Peteet Pdf

The vast area of the North Pacific, spanning ~55˚ longitude, represents a challenge for documenting and understanding the geologic history of ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial environmental change. Nevertheless, its importance for many issues, including our fundamental understanding of ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns and teleconnections with natural modes of climate variability through time, has led to a steady rise in the numbers of study sites and proxy types. By bringing together a wide range of proxies and timescales that examine the impacts of paleoclimate on ecosystems, water, carbon, and humans, and interactions between marine and terrestrial processes, this Research Topic contributes to an improved understanding of the region’s significance at global, hemispheric, and regional scales.

Author : Inge-Lise Maria Stuijts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Paleobotany
ISBN : 9054101474

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Vegetation of West Java, Indonesia by Inge-Lise Maria Stuijts Pdf

Author : Thom Holmes
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0816059667

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Early Humans by Thom Holmes Pdf

Highlights fundamental principles of scientific inquiry and traces the origins, adaptability, and innovations of the human species.

Author : Rintaro Ono,Alfred Pawlik
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : 9781838803575

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Pleistocene Archaeology by Rintaro Ono,Alfred Pawlik Pdf

This book presents an overview of recent research in the field of Pleistocene Archaeology around the world. The main topics of this book are: (1) human migrations, particularly by Homo sapiens who have migrated into most regions of the world and settled in different environments, (2) the development of human technology from early to archaic hominins and Homo sapiens, and (3) human adaptation to new environments and responses to environmental changes caused by climate changes during the Pleistocene. With such perspectives in mind, this book contains a total of nine insightful and stimulating chapters on these topics, in which human history during the time of the Pleistocene is reviewed and discussed.

Author : Guadalupe Sánchez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816530632

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Los Primeros Mexicanos by Guadalupe Sánchez Pdf

"This book presents a synthesis of Mexican Paleoindian archaeology with an emphasis on the state of Sonora. The author uses extensive primary data concerning specific artifacts, assemblages, and other Mexican and Sonoran Paleoindian archaeology to demonstrate the insignificance of current international borders to the earliest peoples of North America"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Claude Chapdelaine
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603447904

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Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast by Claude Chapdelaine Pdf

The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling of North America. Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast focuses on the Clovis pioneers and their eastward migration into this region, inhospitable before 13,500 years ago, especially in its northern latitudes. Bringing together the last decade or so of research on the Paleoindian presence in the area, Claude Chapdelaine and the contributors to this volume discuss, among other topics, the style variations in the fluted points left behind by these migrating peoples, a broader disparity than previously thought. This book offers not only an opportunity to review new data and interpretations in most areas of the Far Northeast, including a first glimpse at the Cliche-Rancourt Site, the only known fluted point site in Quebec, but also permits these new findings to shape revised interpretations of old sites. The accumulation of research findings in the Far Northeast has been steady, and this timely book presents some of the most interesting results, offering fresh perspectives on the prehistory of this important region.

Author : Jeannine Gareau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Geology, Stratigraphic
ISBN : 1536137286

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The Pleistocene by Jeannine Gareau Pdf

In this collection, the authors begin by discussing the Quaternary, the most recent geological period of time in Earth's history spanning the last 2.588 million years. The Quaternary System is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Series, with the Pleistocene spanning most of the Quaternary, while the Holocene covers the last 11 700 calendar year. In order to understand contemporary stratigraphic terms and subdivisions of the Quaternary, the historical background becomes necessary. Besides the traditional chronostratigraphical and geochronological division, the Quaternary was divided also climatostratigraphically based on the recorded climatic changes. The following paper presents the results of geomorphological and geochronological studies within the highest southeastern part of Russian Altai. Geomorphological evidence of at least of two Pleistocene glacial epochs are mapped within the Chagan-Uzun river basin, and an analysis of all available absolute dates for the reference section is presented. The authors present a survey wherein information about over 200 species of small mammals is given concerning morphology, taxonomy, and distribution across more than 20 localities, covering the last 4.5 million years. A detailed biostratigraphic scheme has been developed, which is compared with independent sources of chronology. In this context, the paleoecological information provided by the individual regional biostratigraphic assemblages is analyzed, and the paleoecological reconstructions are correlated with global paleoclimatic evidence. After this, this book retraces fossil discoveries and significant evidences of big cats in Europe in order to describe their rise to top predators, as well as their recent fall resulting from climatic change and the increase in human population. At the present time, the group includes five species: Panthera leo, Panthera pardus, Panthera onca, Panthera tigris, and Panthera uncia. The final chapter includes a brief review of the late Pleistocene mammals from Mexico, pointing out recent findings concerning their paleobiology considering the recently documented record from areas of central and southern Mexico. This research allows for an increase in the number of fossil localities, determination of the taxonomic status of some artiodactyls, and characterization of the dietary traits of herbivore species by means of stable isotopes and dental wear patterns analyses.

Author : George G. and Elizabeth G. Smith Foundation
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:31951002268318C

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Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archeology of the Eastern Great Lakes Region by George G. and Elizabeth G. Smith Foundation Pdf

Author : Jeannine Gareau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 1536137294

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The Pleistocene by Jeannine Gareau Pdf

In this collection, the authors begin by discussing the Quaternary, the most recent geological period of time in Earth's history spanning the last 2.588 million years. The Quaternary System is subdivided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene Series, with the Pleistocene spanning most of the Quaternary, while the Holocene covers the last 11 700 calendar year. In order to understand contemporary stratigraphic terms and subdivisions of the Quaternary, the historical background becomes necessary. Besides the traditional chronostratigraphical and geochronological division, the Quaternary was divided also climatostratigraphically based on the recorded climatic changes. The following paper presents the results of geomorphological and geochronological studies within the highest southeastern part of Russian Altai. Geomorphological evidence of at least of two Pleistocene glacial epochs are mapped within the Chagan-Uzun river basin, and an analysis of all available absolute dates for the reference section is presented. The authors present a survey wherein information about over 200 species of small mammals is given concerning morphology, taxonomy, and distribution across more than 20 localities, covering the last 4.5 million years. A detailed biostratigraphic scheme has been developed, which is compared with independent sources of chronology. In this context, the paleoecological information provided by the individual regional biostratigraphic assemblages is analyzed, and the paleoecological reconstructions are correlated with global paleoclimatic evidence. After this, this book retraces fossil discoveries and significant evidences of big cats in Europe in order to describe their rise to top predators, as well as their recent fall resulting from climatic change and the increase in human population. At the present time, the group includes five species: Panthera leo, Panthera pardus, Panthera onca, Panthera tigris, and Panthera uncia. The final chapter includes a brief review of the late Pleistocene mammals from Mexico, pointing out recent findings concerning their paleobiology considering the recently documented record from areas of central and southern Mexico. This research allows for an increase in the number of fossil localities, determination of the taxonomic status of some artiodactyls, and characterization of the dietary traits of herbivore species by means of stable isotopes and dental wear patterns analyses.