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Author McLaurin, Brett T

Title Reconstructing human-landscape interactions. Volume 1, Interpreting desert and fluvial environments / Brett T. McLaurin, Aileen C. Elliott, Nalini Torres
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 55 pages) : illustrations
Series SpringerBriefs in earth system sciences, 2191-589X
SpringerBriefs in earth system sciences.
Contents Foreword by Michelle Goman -- Genesis of an artifact layer at the La Playa archaeological site, Sonora, Mexico -- Quaternary stratigraphy of the La Playa archaeological site, Northern Sonora, Mexico -- The Red River raft and its sedimentological implications
Summary The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs.¡ Domestication of crops and animals and the resultant intensification of agriculture lead to profound changes in the impact humans have on the environment.¡ Conversely, as human populations began to increase geologic and climatic factors begin to have a greater impact on civilizations.¡ To understand and reconstruct the complex interplay between humans and the environment over the past ten thousand years requires examination of multiple differing but interconnected aspects of the environment and involves geomorphology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology and paleoclimatology.¡ These Springer Briefs volumes examine the dynamic interplay between humans and the natural environment as reconstructed by the many and varied sub-fields of the Earth Sciences
Analysis Geography
Science (General)
Environmental sciences
Earth Sciences
Environment, general
Science, general
wetenschap
science
geografie
milieu
environment
aardwetenschappen
aardsysteemkunde
earth system science
Geology (General)
Geologie (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Environmental geomorphology.
Landforms.
landforms (terrestrial)
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology.
Environmental geomorphology
Landforms
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Elliott, Aileen C
Torres, N. (Nalini)
ISBN 9783642237591
3642237592
Other Titles Interpreting desert and fluvial environments