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Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900–1600

2012 William C. Foster ;ISBN: 9780292737419 ;ISBN: 0292737416 ;EISBN: 9780292737426 ;EISBN: 0292737424 ;DOI: 10.7560/737419 ;OCLC: 932314254 ;LCCallNum: GF501.F67 2012

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  • Title:
    Climate and Culture Change in North America AD 900–1600
  • Author: Foster, William C
  • Subjects: American Bottom ; Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) ; Casas Grandes culture ; Chaco Canyon ; Chaco culture ; Chihuahua (State) ; Earth Sciences ; Ecology ; Ethnic Studies ; Ethnoecology ; Illinois ; Indigenous peoples ; Meteorology & Climatology ; Mexico ; Mississippian culture ; Native American Studies ; New Mexico ; North America ; Physics ; SCIENCE ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology
  • Description: Climate change is today's news, but it isn't a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age (LIA), AD 1300 to 1600, had a substantial impact on the cultural history of Europe. In this pathfinding volume, William C. Foster marshals extensive evidence that the heating and cooling of the MWP and LIA also occurred in North America and significantly affected the cultural history of Native peoples of the American Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast. Correlating climate change data with studies of archaeological sites across the Southwest, Southern Plains, and Southeast, Foster presents the first comprehensive overview of how Native American societies responded to climate variations over seven centuries. He describes how, as in Europe, the MWP ushered in a cultural renaissance, during which population levels surged and Native peoples substantially intensified agriculture, constructed monumental architecture, and produced sophisticated works of art. Foster follows the rise of three dominant cultural centers-Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, Cahokia on the middle Mississippi River, and Casas Grandes in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico-that reached population levels comparable to those of London and Paris. Then he shows how the LIA reversed the gains of the MWP as population levels and agricultural production sharply declined; Chaco Canyon, Cahokia, and Casas Grandes collapsed; and dozens of smaller villages also collapsed or became fortresses.
  • Publisher: Austin: University of Texas Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 233
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780292737419
    ISBN: 0292737416
    EISBN: 9780292737426
    EISBN: 0292737424
    DOI: 10.7560/737419
    OCLC: 932314254
    LCCallNum: GF501.F67 2012
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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