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Droughts, food, and culture : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory
- Title
- Droughts, food, and culture : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory / edited by Fekri A. Hassan.
- Publication
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hassan, Fekri A., 1943-
- Description
- xvii, 347 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / F.A. Hassan -- Palaeoclimate, food, and culture change in Africa / 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 / 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 : an Ethiopian perspective / A. Butler -- The evidence for the earliest livestock in North Africa / A. Gautier -- Cultural responses 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 / F.A. Hassan.
- Call Number
- Sc E 02-923
- ISBN
- 0306467550
- LCCN
- 2002022218
- OCLC
- 49225648
- Title
- Droughts, food, and culture : ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory / edited by Fekri A. Hassan.
- Imprint
- New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Hassan, Fekri A., 1943-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 02-923