Description
Book SynopsisCorrelating climate change and archaeological data, an award-winning historian offers the first comprehensive overview of how the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age significantly impacted the Native cultures of the American Southwest, Southern Pl
Trade Review"Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900-1600 is an ambitious synthesis of archaeological and historical evidence concerning the effects of climate on human societies...The book is suitable for a range of audiences and I think it could make a good text for a course on climate and culture change or one on North American archaeology...The book deserves to be read as a beginning point for a long, thoughtful discussion about climate and culture change in North America and is a welcome addition to the literature on the subject." -- Staff The Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Tenth Century
- Chapter 2. The Eleventh Century
- Chapter 3. The Twelfth Century
- Chapter 4. The Thirteenth Century
- Chapter 5. The Fourteenth Century
- Chapter 6. The Fifteenth Century
- Chapter 7. The Sixteenth Century
- Summary and Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
