The archaeological and paleoclimate records spanning the period of human occupation in
Eastern North America are becoming linked with greater and greater precision. Researchers�…

An interdisciplinary literature review indicates that there have been several episodes of
climate change during the late Holocene. Proxies from the geological and archaeological�…

During recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to the role of past climatic
changes as driving forces for human responses. Consequently the collaboration between�…

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the cultural dynamics as a result of climatic
changes in the Southeastern region of North America. During the middle Archaic period in�…

Review of late Holocene paleoenvironmental and cultural sequences from four regions of
western North America shows striking correlations between drought and changes in�…

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the cultural dynamics as a result of climatic
changes in the Northwest Coast of North America. It reviews the paleoclimatic and�…

Recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest in human ecodynamics—the
relationship among climate, environment, and culture. Most published research�…

The role of Holocene climate change has long been debated in Northern Plains
archaeology. Antev's Altithermal drought model was adopted in the mid-1950s to explain the�…

Abstract Analysis of modern climatic data suggests a pattern of response to global cooling
for precipitation in Mesoamerica and North America. Also research in palaeoclimatology has�…

Only in the last few years have high-resolution paleoclimatic data become available from
coastal southern California. Recent research in the California Channel Islands, drawing on�…