Holocene climate and society : civilization and climate revisited -- Tools for understanding paleoenvironments in the southern levant : principles of climatic reconstruction in the near east -- Land and history : introduction to the modern landscape and historical framework -- Paleoenvironments of the near east : the retreat of the pleistocene -- Holocene paleoenvironments of the near east -- From hunter-gatherers to village farmers : the role of climate change in the origins of agriculture -- Early complex societies : climate change and collapse of early bronze age societies -- Empires in the desert : political ecology of ancient empires -- Civilizing climate
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