Third Millennium BC Climate Change and Old World Collapse

Chapter 2 Environmental Change and Human Adaptational Failure at the End of the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant

Chapter 3 Evidence for Mid-Holocene Environmental Change in the Western Khabur Drainage, Northeastern Syria

Chapter 4 Environmental Fluctuations, Agricultural Production and Collapse: A View from Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamia

Chapter 5 The Scenario of Environmental Degradation in the Tell Leilan Region, Ne Syria, During the Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change

Chapter 6 Cultural Change in the Aegean c.2200BC

Chapter 7 The Third Millennium BC in Iberia: Chronometric Evidence for Settlement Histories and Socio-cultural Change

Chapter 8 Climate and the Eclipse of the Ancient Cities of the Indus

Chapter 9 Sociopolitical Discontinuity in the Near East C. 2200 B.C.E.: Scenarios from Palestine and Egypt

Chapter 10 Holocene Climate Change and Man in the Present Day Sahara Desert

Chapter 11 Mid-Holocene Dry Spells in Bohemia, Central Europe

Chapter 12 Geomorphologic Arguments for Mid- to Late Holocene Environmental Change in Central Anatolian (Pluvial) Lake Basins

Chapter 13 The Late Holocene Environmental and Climate Shift in Russia and Surrounding Lands

Chapter 14 Environmental and Climatic Changes Between 3 and 5ka BP in Southeastern Ukraine

Chapter 15 Mid- to Late Holocene Changes in Central Europe Climate and Man

Chapter 16 The Age and Causes of Mid-Late Holocene Environmental Change in Southwest Turkey

Chapter 17 Bronze Age Regression and Change of Sedimentation on the Aegean Coastal Plains of Anatolia (Turkey)

Chapter 18 Environmental Changes in Holocene Lacustrine Sequences from Karapinar in the Konya Plain (Turkey)

Chapter 19 Proxy Indications of Holocene Winter Rains in Southwest Asia Compared with Simulated Rainfall

Chapter 20 Monsoon Regime Variations During the Late Holocene in the Southwestern India

Chapter 21 Third Millennium Climate in the Near East Based upon Pollen Evidence

Chapter 22 Middle and Late Holocene Vegetation and Climate Changes in Peninsular Italy

Chapter 23 Environmental Changes in Central Europe 5000–3000 BP

Chapter 24 Development of Sediments, Soils, Erosional Events, Molluscan and Vertebrate Assemblages in Connection with Human Impact in Central Europe During the Time Span 3,000 – 5,000 BP

Chapter 25 High Resolution Simulations of Regional Holocene Climate: North Africa and the Near East

Chapter 26 Background to Mid-Holocene Climatic Change in Anatolia and Adjacent Regions

Chapter 27 Middle to Late Holocene Changes in Tropical Africa and Other Continents: Paleomonsoon and Sea Surface Temperature Variations

Chapter 28 Late Holocene Vegetational Changes in South-West Cameroon

Chapter 29 δ 18 o and Trace Element Measurements as Proxy for the Reconstruction of Climate Changes at Lake Van (Turkey): Preliminary Results

Chapter 30 Climate Change at the End of the Third Millennium BC — Evidence from Varved Lacustrine Sediments

Chapter 31 Environmental Vulnerability of Early Societies: Some Reflections on Modeling Issues

Chapter 32 Was the Holocene Climate Uniquely Benign or Is the Eemian Catching Cold from the Reinforcement Syndrome Virus?

Chapter 33 Late Third Millennium Abrupt Climate Change and Social Collapse in West Asia and Egypt