After seven years at the UK National Physical Laboratory researching atmospheric physics, Bill Burroughs spent three years as a UK Scientific Attache´ in Washington DC. Climate Change in Prehistory weaves together studies of the climate with anthropological, archaeological and historical studies, and will fascinate all those interested in the effects of climate on human development and history. In short: climate change in prehistory has in so many ways made us what we are today. This analysis is based on the proposition that essential features of modern societies – agriculture and urban life – only became possible when the climate settled down after the chaos of the last ice age. It reviews the aspects of our physiology, intellectual development and social behaviour that have been influenced by climatic factors, and how features of our lives – diet, health and the relationship with nature – are also the product of the climate in which we evolved. Drawing on recent advances in genetic mapping, it presents the latest thinking on how the fluctuations during the ice age defined the development and spread of modern humans across the Earth. The evolutionary implications of living with the ice age -Ĭlimate Change in Prehistory The End of the Reign of Chaos Climate Change in Prehistory explores the challenges that faced humankind in a glacial climate and the opportunities that arose when the climate improved dramatically around 10,000 years ago.
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