The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization AUTH-12006984 ISBN13: 9781433576324

ISBN13: 9781433576324

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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization AUTH-12006984 ISBN13: 9781433576324For more than a century we've known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human