Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa :
Quaternary environmental change in southern Africa : physical and human dimensions /
edited by Jasper Knight, Stefan W. Grab.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- 1 online resource (xi, 436 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016).
Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.
9781107295483 (ebook)
Paleoclimatology--Quaternary.
Paleoclimatology--Africa, Southern.
Climatic changes--Africa, Southern.
QC884.2.C5 / Q83 2016
551.7/90968
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016).
Ongoing climate change necessitates advances in our understanding of the interrelationships between climate, landscape-shaping processes and human activity over long time periods, especially in areas that are already climatically stressed. This volume presents new ideas on macroscale landscape evolution; mountain, fluvial and aeolian processes; and environments in southern Africa, a key region in the story of human evolution during the last two million years. Interdisciplinary in scope, it brings together an international team of experts to synthesise the latest research and understanding of landscape-human relationships in this region. It incorporates results from the emerging fields of geoarchaeology and cultural landscapes and utilises the latest data and analytical techniques. A key reference for researchers studying hominid evolution, geoarchaeology and environmental change, it provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary. It will also appeal to professionals and policymakers with interests in future human-landscape evolution in southern Africa.
9781107295483 (ebook)
Paleoclimatology--Quaternary.
Paleoclimatology--Africa, Southern.
Climatic changes--Africa, Southern.
QC884.2.C5 / Q83 2016
551.7/90968