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Megadrought and Collapse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Megadrought and Collapse

Megadrought and Collapse revises the global archaeological and historical record with nine case studies that describe and analyze decades to centuries long megadroughts, from the Pleistocene to the 15th century AD, and the societal collapses they caused. Each study is a definitive review of societal responses to natural climate change.

Maps
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Maps

Discusses various aspects of maps including direction, distance, symbols, latitude, and longitude, how maps are made, special purpose maps, and charts.

Power and Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Power and Architecture

The idea that societies and rulers express their power through monumental architecture is not a new one, but this collection of essays, the result of a 2002 conference in Leuven, takes the arguement back to the very beginnings of monumental architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean, to ask if this process can be linked to a particular ...

Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 733

Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse

Around 4000 years ago the advanced urban civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and India suddenly collapsed. What happened? Did a prolonged drought cause the breakdown of social order? Recent discoveries from all over the world strongly support the suspected link of the collapse with climate. The volume presents the findings of more than 40 researchers and provides a review on the relevant information. It appears that a major shift of the precipitation pattern affected many parts of the world at approximately the same time, with disastrous effects on the nomadic populations of Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Can a similar climate shift with a serious adverse impact on society happen again? In a world facing global warming, there could be many lessons to be learned from the experiences of ancient societies.

Black Stone Knife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Black Stone Knife

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970-03-01
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  • Publisher: Simon Pulse

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1076

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

People of the Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 524

People of the Book

The contributors are highly productive and respected Jewish-American scholars, critics, and teachers from departments of English, history, American studies, Romance literature, Slavic studies, art, women's studies, comparative literature, anthropology, Judaic studies, and philosophy.

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This introduction to the Ancient Near East includes coverage of Egypt and a balance of political, social, and cultural coverage. Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in Near Eastern political history, the text interlaces social and cultural history with the political narrative. This combination allows students to get a rounded introduction to the subject of Ancient Near Eastern history. An emphasis on problems and areas of uncertainty helps students understand how evidence is used to create interpretations and allows them to realize that several different interpretations of the same evidence are possible.This introduction to the Ancient Near East includes coverage of Egypt and a balance of political, social, and cultural coverage.

From New Haven to Nineveh and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1075

From New Haven to Nineveh and Beyond

Over the course of three centuries, Yale has been actively and seriously engaged in Near Eastern learning, in both senses of the term-training students in the knowledge and skills needed to understand the languages and civilizations of the region, and supporting generations of scholars renowned for their erudition and pathbreaking research. This book traces the history of these endeavors through extensive use of unpublished archival materials, including letters, diaries, and records of institutional decisions. Developments at Yale are set against the wider background of changing American attitudes toward the Near East, as well as evolving ideas about the role of the academy and its curriculu...

The Best in Children's Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572

The Best in Children's Books

Includes indexes.