A01=Gwen Robbins Schug
agriculture
anthropogenic impact
Author_Gwen Robbins Schug
BC
bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
biodemography model
Bronze Age
burial
caste
Category=NKD
Category=NKX
children
class
climate-culture change model
Dalit
degradation
environment
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
foraging
global
growth
Gwen Robbins Schug
hunting
Iron Age
juvenile
Megalithic
Mid-Holocene
Neolithic
paleoclimate reconstruction
Peninsula India
skeletal
South Asia
subcontinent
urbanism
Product details
- ISBN 9780813054124
- Weight: 290g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Feb 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.
In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.
Robbins Schug's biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.
In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.
Robbins Schug's biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.
Gwen Robbins Schug is assistant professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University, USA.
