Holocene Supra-Regional Environmental Changes as Trigger for Major Socio-Cultural Processes in Northeastern Africa and the Sahara

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Maria Gatto, Andrea Zerboni]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
African Archaeological Review, 32/2(2015-06-01), 301-333
Format:
Artikel (online)
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520 3 |a This contribution presents the environmental changes that occurred over the last ten millennia in a vast region of North Africa, encompassing the Central Sahara, the Greater Nile Valley and the Horn of Africa. These areas are of particular significance in the continent because of the early socioeconomic transformations that occurred there. An up-to-date review of palaeoclimate research is proposed with the aim to highlight new theoretical approaches, analytical methods and innovative techniques. Results of recent research on high-resolution and well-dated palaeoenvironmental archives for proxy data have been used to understand the climatic variability at different scales of resolution. We trace the regional changes in Holocene palaeohydrology, mostly regulated by monsoonal precipitation, and their effects on the landscape, and highlight the occurrence of short-term climatic events, arid or humid that may have had disruptive consequences on human communities. The contribution also discusses the cultural dynamics that occurred in those regions because the latter were exploited by hunter/gatherer groups from the onset of the Holocene until historical times. A reconstruction of patterns of human adjustment to climatic variability is here presented, focusing on key processes such as the origin of food production, social complexity and power, and the rise and fall of complex polities and interregional networks. 
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690 7 |a Palaeoclimates  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Cultural dynamics  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Holocene  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Northeastern Africa  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Sahara  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Gatto  |D Maria  |u School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, University Road, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Zerboni  |D Andrea  |u Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra "A. Desio”, Università degli Studi di Milano, via L. Mangiagalli 34, I-20133, Milan, Italy  |4 aut 
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