The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change

by Gwen Robbins Schug

Book Overview

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, and their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, migration, and interpersonal violence. Bioarchaeology--the study of archaeological human skeletons--provides direct evidence of the human experience of past climate and environmental changes and serves as an important complement to paleoclimate, historical, and archaeological approaches to changes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367560380
• ISBN13: 9780367560386
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 524 Pages