Human adaptations to environmental change during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene - Part 2

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Climate change at the end of the Pleistocene was both rapid and global in extent, with important consequences for the human environment. This symposium will draw together regional perspectives on the patterns of environmental change and human adaptation that marked the last glacial-interglacial transition, against a background of continuing improvements in the quality and temporal resolution of the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records. Participating scholars will explore whether, and to what extent, a causal relationship can be documented between environmental instability and changes in demographic patterns, subsistence strategies and social organization at different temporal and geographical scales during the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene.

Other Keywords
Hunter-Gatherers • Settlement patterns • Underwater Archaeology • Environmental Change • Climate Change • Archaeomalacology • Mammalian Fauna • Paleoindian • Archaic • Early Neolithic

Geographic Keywords
Europe • South America • Arctic • North America - Plains • North America - Southeast

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  1. Breckenridge Shelter, Arkansas and the Younger Dryas (2015)
  2. By the seaside: The role of marine resources in northern Spain from the late Palaeolithic to the Neolithic (2015)
  3. Causalities, time-scales and processes of environmental and cultural change in Italy between the Final Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic (2015)
  4. Correlating climate change and archaeological record in the Iron Gates Mesolithic (2015)
  5. Environmental Change and the Neolithization of Southeast Europe: a Bulgarian perspective (2015)
  6. Expansion and extinction: the Collapse of the Mammoth Steppe fauna (2015)
  7. Human response to sea-level change in the Early Holocene: examples from the continental shelf (2015)
  8. The impact of the 8.2 kyr cal BP event on Late Mesolithic demography in the central Mediterranean region of Spain (2015)
  9. The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys of the Mid-South United States (2015)
  10. The Terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition and settlement discontinuities in the arid Central Andes (2015)