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Droughts, food, and culture : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory
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Droughts, food, and culture : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory

Author: Fekri A Hassan; NetLibrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, ©2002.
Edition/Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Electronic books.
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Fekri A Hassan; NetLibrary, Inc.
ISBN: 0306475472 9780306475474
OCLC Number: 51874863
Description: xvii, 347 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Palaeoclimate, food and culture change in Africa : an overview / F.A. Hassan -- Rapid Holocene climate changes in the eastern Mediterranean / E.J. Rohling ... [et al.] -- Climate during the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel : evolution and consequences on human settlement / R. Vernet -- Late Pleistocene and Holocene climatic changes in the Central Sahara : the case study of the southwestern Fezzan, Libya / M. Cremaschi -- Late Holocene climatic fluctuations and historical records of famine in Ethiopia / M.U. Mohammed and R. Bonnefille -- Environmental and human responses to climatic events in West and West Central Africa during the Late Holocene / M.A. Sowunmi -- Regional pathways to agriculture in Northeast Africa / H.N. Barakat -- From hunters and gatherers to food producers : new archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence from the West African Sahel / P. Breunig and K. Neumann -- Holocene climatic changes in the eastern Mediterranean and the spread of food production from Southwest Asia to Egypt / M. Rossignol-Strick -- Sustainable agriculture in a harsh environment : and Ethiopian perspective / A. Butler -- Evidence for the earliest livestock in North Africa : or adventures with large bovids, ovicaprids, dogs and pigs / A. Gautier -- Cultural reponses to climatic changes in North Africa : beginning and spread of pastoralism in the Sahara / B.E. Barich -- Dry climatic events and cultural trajectories : adjusting Middle Holocene pastoral economy of the Libyan Sahara / S. di Lernia -- Food security in Western and Central Africa during the Late Holocene : the role of domestic stock keeping, hunting and fishing / W. Van Neer -- Bovines in Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic iconography / S. Hendrickx -- Ecological changes and food security in the later prehistory of North Africa : looking forward / F.A. Hassan.
Responsibility: edited by Fekri A. Hassan.

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