Megadrought and collapse from early agriculture to Angkor / edited by Harvey Weiss.
| Other author | Weiss, Harvey, 1945- |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017] |
| Description | xi, 331 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Harvey Weiss -- 12,000-11,700 cal BP: the collapse of foraging and origins of cultivation in western Asia / Ofer Bar-Yosef, Miryam Bar-Matthews, and Avner Ayalon -- 6600-6000 cal BP abrupt climate change and neolithic dispersal from west Asia / Bernard Weninger and Lee Clare -- 4.2 ka BP megadrought and the Akkadian collapse / Harvey Weiss -- 3.2 ka BP megadrought and the late Bronze Age collapse / Daniel Kaniewski and Elise Van Campo -- Ad 550-600 collapse at Teotihuacan: testing a climate forcing from a 2400-year Mesoamerican rainfall reconstruction / Matthew S. Lachniet and Juan Pablo Bernal-Uruchurtu -- AD 750-1100 climate change and critical transitions in classic Maya sociopolitical networks / Douglas J. Kennett and David A. Hodell -- Twelfth century AD: climate, environment, and the Tiwanaku State / Lonnie Thompson and Alan L. Kolata -- Thirteenth century AD: implications of seasonal and annual moisture reconstructions for Mesa Verde, Colorado / David W. Stahle, Dorian J. Burnette, Daniel Griffin, and Edward R. Cook -- Fourteenth to sixteenth centuries AD: the case of Angkor and monsoon extremes in mainland southeast Asia / Roland Fletcher, Brendan M. Buckley, Christophe pottier, and Shi-Yu Simon Wang. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017019143 |
| ISBN | 9780199329199 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0199329192 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |