Editors: Sous la direction de François Djindjian

Summary: Ce volume regroupe les contributions des membres de l’Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques (UISPP), à un projet lancé en 2017, avec le soutien de l’Union Académique Internationale (UAI), sous le titre «Les sociétés humaines face aux changements climatiques dans la préhistoire et la protohistoire : des origines de l’Humanité au début des temps historiques ». Le directeur du projet est le Président de l’UISPP, Professeur François Djindjian. This volume bring together the contributions of the members of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), to a project launched in 2017, with the support of the International Academic Union (UAI), under the title Human societies facing climate change in prehistory and protohistory: from the origins of Humanity to the beginning of historical times. The project director is the President of the UISPP, Professor François Djindjian. The first volume concerns prehistory from the earliest humans to the end of the Pleistocene. For three million years human societies have experienced a great alternation of glacial and interglacial periods. In the volume are discussed several critical questions such as: Which climates have been most favorable to human settlement? Which the least favorable? And did they involve the abandonment of territories, the collapse of societies and extinction of some human populations? When and in what climates did human groups colonize each of the continents of the planet? Is a period of climatic improvement with a hot and humid climate more or less favorable to the development of human societies than a period of climate depreciation? Is climate change a factor of change for human societies, forcingthem to adapt and find sustainable solutions.

ISBN 978-1-80327-260-3. — ISBN 978-1-80327-261-0 (e-Pdf)

DOI: http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803272603

Multivolume edition: Les sociétés humaines face aux changements climatiques. , Vol. 1. La préhistoire des origines de l’humanité à la fin du pléistocène

Responsible institutions: Institut d’archéologie du NAS d’Ukraine et al.

Published: Paris : Archaeopress Archaeology

Size in pages: 344

Print run: 300

Additional information: International scientific edition