caa a22 4500 605448868 CHVBK 20210128100138.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10437-015-9187-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10437-015-9187-6 African Palaeoclimate and Human Response: A Special Issue of the African Archaeological Review [Elektronische Daten] [Roderick McIntosh, Jean Maley, Robert Vernet] Acknowledging the patchiness of palaeoclimatic data, as well as a new appreciation of how complex the forcing mechanisms of Africa's climates are, it would be premature to propose a grand synthesis of the continent's climatic backdrop to human history and prehistory. That said, this "state-of-the-art” sampler from several regions of Africa serves several purposes. Although chronological resolution—palaeoclimatic and archaeological—continues to improve, the warning "Causation, Correlation or Co-incidence” still very much applies to all exercises in explanation. Even in those cases of high-resolution climatic sequences, dating of the corresponding prehistoric sequence often proves disappointing. And lastly (ending on an optimistic note), each contribution to this special issue features one or more new techniques of climate data extraction that might usefully be applied continent-wide. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Palaeoclimate nationallicence Causation nationallicence Correlation nationallicence Chronological resolution nationallicence Proxy data nationallicence McIntosh Roderick Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA aut Maley Jean Université Monpellier, Monpellier, France aut Vernet Robert UMR 7194, Département Préhistoire du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle I.P.H., 1 rue R. Panhard, 75013, Paris, France aut African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/2(2015-06-01), 167-177 0263-0338 32:2<167 2015 32 10437 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9187-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-015-9187-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McIntosh Roderick Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maley Jean Université Monpellier, Monpellier, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vernet Robert UMR 7194, Département Préhistoire du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle I.P.H., 1 rue R. Panhard, 75013, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Archaeological Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 32/2(2015-06-01), 167-177 0263-0338 32:2<167 2015 32 10437