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Document title

Human responses to middle Holocene (Altithermal) climates on the North American Great Plains

Authors(s) and Affiliation(s)

MELTZER D.J. ;

Abstract

The purpose of this review is threefold : to summarize middle Holocene climates and environments of the Great Plains that would have affected human foragers; to assess the potential impact of middle and late Holocene geomorphic processes on the archaeological record from this period; and then to identify broad spatial and temporal trends in human adaptations of this period, and assess the manner in which foragers responded to those climatic, ecological, and hydrological conditions

Keyword(s)

Paléo-environnement ; Holocène ; Archéologie ; Sécheresse ; Adaptation ; Paléo-écologie ; Site archéologique ; Occupation humaine ; Amérique du Nord ; Great Plains

Palaeo-environment ; Holocene ; Archaeology ; Drought ; Adaptation ; Palaeo-ecology ; Archeological site ; Human occupation ; North America ;

Classification code(s)

531-466 : Géographie physique

531-IX : AMERIQUE.

531 : BGI / PRODIG.

Source

Article of periodic

published at : Quaternary research / ISSN 0033-5894 / CODEN QRESAV

Editor : Elsevier, San Diego, CA - ETATS-UNIS (1970)

Millesime : 1999, vol. 52, n^o3 [pp. 404-416]

Bibliographic references : 111 ref.

Collation : Illustration ;

Language

Anglais

INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 15739