The Recurring Dark Ages: Ecological Stress, Climate Changes, and System TransformationRowman Altamira, 2007 - 295 pages "In this modern era of global environmental crisis, Sing Chew provides a convincing analysis of the recurring human and environmental crises identified as Dark Ages. In this, his second of a three-volume series concerning world ecological degradation, Chew reviews the past 5,000-year history of structural conditions and processes that define the relationship between nature and culture. Chew's message about the coming Dark Ages, as human communities continue to reorganize to meet the contingencies of ecological scarcity and climate changes, is a must-read for those concerned with human interactions and environmental changes, including environmental anthropologists and historians, world historians, geographers, archaeologists, and environmental scientists."--pub. website. |
Contents
System Crisis | 3 |
The Crises of the Bronze Age | 19 |
Nature and Culture | 21 |
Ecological Crisis and System Transformation | 41 |
The Crisis of Antiquity | 109 |
Intensification of Natural and Social System Relations | 111 |
A Period of Darkness | 139 |
System Transformation | 167 |
From the Past to the Future Whither System Transformation? | 169 |
Arboreal Pollen Influxes | 191 |
Plantago Pollen Influxes | 213 |
Arboreal and Nonarboreal Pollen Influxes Percentages | 231 |
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Aegean Africa Age world system agricultural production Anatolia Ancient anthropogenic Arboreal Pollen Count Arboreal/Nonarboreal Pollen areas Asia B.C. onward BC-AD Bronze Age world centers central Chew climate changes collapse communities copper core Crete cultural Dark Age conditions decline deforestation deurbanization East eastern Mediterranean eastern Roman Empire ecological stress economic edited Egypt elites environment Europe expansion Figure frontier Germanic Iron Age global Gölü Greek Greek Dark Ages Harappan civilization Hittites human impact increases Indus Iron Age Lake land landscape manufacturing Mesopotamia metals Minoan Mycenaean Greece natural resources natural system Nile northern northwestern India occurred periphery Plantago Pollen Count pollen profiles pottery processes region reproduction Roman Empire Roman Iron Age Roman legions Rome scarcity settlements Sheratt shift social system socioeconomic and political southern Mesopotamia Spain Steisslingen structures Syria system crisis system transformation third century A.D. third millennium B.C. tion trade routes trends Ugarit Ukraine urban Uruk western world history
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