Abstract
The period spanning the Late Glacial and the Early Holocene (≈19–8.2 ka) witnessed a dramatic sequence of climate and palaeoenvironmental changes (Rasmussen et al., 2014). Interestingly, some of the most significant transformations ever documented in human Prehistory took place during this period such as the intensification of hunter-gatherer economic systems, the domestication process of wild plants and animals, and the spread of farming across Eurasia. Understanding the role of climate and environmental dynamics on long-term cultural and economic trajectories, as well as specific human responses to episodes of rapid climate change, still remains as one of the main challenges of archaeological research (Kintigh et al., 2014).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Quaternary Science Reviews |
Volume | 184 |
Early online date | 10 Feb 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Mar 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The guest editors would like to thank Fundació La Caixa for hosting the MEDINES International Conference in Tarragona. This International Conference was co-sponsored by Fundació la Caixa and the research projects PRETM (FP7 Marie Curie Actions-IEF Ref. 628589) under the European Commission, POSTGLACIAL-MED (Ref. HAR2013-41197-P) and MULTISCALAR-DEM (Ref. HAR2015-70685-ERC) both from the MINECO Funding Agency (Spain). JFL is supported by the MINECO grants RyC-2011-09363 and IEDI-2017-00889. The guest editors are particularly grateful to Neil Roberts and Colin Murray-Wallace (Quaternary Science Reviews), and the authors and reviewers that contributed to the publication of this special issue.