Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions - Volume 1: by Brett T. McLaurin,Aileen C. Elliott,Nalini Torres

By Brett T. McLaurin,Aileen C. Elliott,Nalini Torres

The Holocene is exclusive in comparison to previous geological time in that people start to modify and manage the traditional setting to their very own needs.  Domestication of plants and animals and the ensuing intensification of agriculture result in profound adjustments within the influence people have at the environment.  Conversely, as human populations started to raise geologic and climatic elements start to have a better influence on civilizations.  to appreciate and reconstruct the complicated interaction among people and the surroundings during the last 10000 years calls for exam of a number of differing yet interconnected features of our surroundings and contains geomorphology, paleoecology, geoarchaeology and paleoclimatology.  those Springer Briefs volumes learn the dynamic interaction among people and the common surroundings as reconstructed through the various and sundry sub-fields of the Earth Sciences.

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