Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.

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Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.

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I. Introduction.- 1. The World at the End of the Last Ice Age.- II. The PleistoceneHolocen Transsition in Africa and the Near East.- 2. At the Transition: The Archaeology of the PleistoceneHolocene Boundary in Southern Africa.- 3. Plus Ça Change: The PleistoceneHolocene Transition in Northeast Africa.- 4. The Impact of Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Climatic Changes on Humans in Southwest Asia.- III. The PleistoceneHolocen Transsition in Europe.- 5. The Archaeology of the PleistoceneHolocene Transition in Southwest Europe.- 6. Resource Exploitation, Subsistence Strategies, and Adaptiveness in Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Northwest Europe.- 7. The North European Plain and Eastern Sub-Balticum between 12,700 and 8,000 BP.- 8. The PleistoceneHolocene Transition on the East European Plain.- IV. Asia and Australia during the PleistoceneHolocen Transsition.- 9. The PleistoceneHolocene Transition in Greater Australia.- 10. Human Activities and Environmental Changes during the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in Southern Thailand and Southeast Asia.- 11. The PleistoceneHolocene Transition in Japan and Adjacent Northeast Asia: Climate and Biotic Change, Broad-Spectrum Diet, Pottery, and Sedentism.- 12. Siberia in the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial.- V. Environment and Peoples at the PleistoceneHolocen Boundary in the Americas.- 13. Human Adaptation at the PleistoceneHolocene Boundary (circa 13,000 to 8,000 BP) in Eastern Beringia.- 14. The PleistoceneHolocene Transition along the Pacific Coast of North America.- 15. The PleistoceneHolocene Transition on the Plants and Rocky Mountains of North Americas.- 16. The PleistoceneHolocene Transition in the Eastern United States.- 17. The PleistoceneHolocene in Southern SouthAmericas.- VI. Conclusion.- 18. Surprises, Recurring Themes, and New Questions in the Study of the Late Glacial and Early Postglacial.