Book contents
- Ice Ages
- Reviews
- Ice Ages
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 In the Beginning
- 2 “Bursting the Limits of Time”
- 3 Darwin’s Revolution
- 4 Discovering an Age of Ice
- 5 Why Does Climate Change?
- 6 Dating Ice Age Climates
- 7 Why Does Climate Change?
- 8 Why Does Climate Change?
- 9 Ecce Homo
- 10 How Did Extinct Hominins Behave?
- 11 Life in the Paleolithic
- 12 Extinction of Large Ice Age Mammals
- 13 Agrarian Transformation
- 14 Rise of Civilizations
- References
- Index
13 - Agrarian Transformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2022
- Ice Ages
- Reviews
- Ice Ages
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 In the Beginning
- 2 “Bursting the Limits of Time”
- 3 Darwin’s Revolution
- 4 Discovering an Age of Ice
- 5 Why Does Climate Change?
- 6 Dating Ice Age Climates
- 7 Why Does Climate Change?
- 8 Why Does Climate Change?
- 9 Ecce Homo
- 10 How Did Extinct Hominins Behave?
- 11 Life in the Paleolithic
- 12 Extinction of Large Ice Age Mammals
- 13 Agrarian Transformation
- 14 Rise of Civilizations
- References
- Index
Summary
Ten thousand years ago, as the climate warmed and the ice sheets retreated, most humans became agricultural.
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- Ice AgesTheir Social and Natural History, pp. 186 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022