Climate change and ancient societies in Europe and the Near East : diversity in collapse and resilience / Paul Erdkamp, Joseph G. Manning, Koenraad Verboven editors.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A historian's introduction to paleoclimatology / Paul Erdkamp -- A hard row to Hoe : ancient climate change from the crop prospective / Frits Heinrich and Annette M. Hansen -- Who follows the Elephant will have problems : thought on modelling roman responses to climate (changes) / Maurits Ersten -- Famines, demographic crises and climate in Italy 1650-1913 / Paolo Malanima -- Collapse and resilience in prehistoric archaeology : questioning concepts and causalities in models of climate-induced societal transformations / Caroline Heitz, Julian Laabs, Martin Hinz and Albert Hafner -- Climate, state building and political change in Egypt during he early bronze age : a direct relation? / Juan Carlos Moreno García -- Vulnerability to climate change in late bronze age Peloponnese (Greece) / Erika Weiberg and Martin Finné -- Saving up for a rainy day? Climate events, human-induced processes and their potential effects on people's coping strategies in the mycenaean argive plain, Greece / Riia Timonen and Ann Brysbaert -- Peloponnesian land use dynamics and climate variability in the first millenium BCE / Anton Bonnier and Martin Finné -- Volcanic eruptions, veiled suns, and Nile failure in Egyptian history : integrating hydroclimate into understandings of historical change / Francis Ludlow and J. G. Manning -- The environmental imperialism of the Roman Empire in Northwestern Europe / Tyler V. Franconi -- Seasonal drought on Roman rivers : transport vs. irrgation / Cynthia J. Bannon -- The Antonine crisis : climate change ad a trigger for epidemiological and economic turmoil / Brandon T. McDonald -- Climate change and the productive landscape in the Mediterranean region in the Roman period / Paul Erdkamp -- Viticulture as a climate proxy for the Roman world? Global warming as a comparative framework for interpreting the ancient source material in Italy and the West (ca. 200 BC- 200 AD) / Dimitri Van Limbergen and Wim De Clercq -- Risks for farming families in the Roman world / Paul V. Kelly -- Figures in an Imperial landscape : ecological and societal factors on settlement patterns and agriculture in Roman Italy / Annalisa Marzano -- Hydrological changes in Late Antiquity : spatio-temporal characteristics and socio-economic impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean / E. Xoplaki, J. Luterbacher, N. Luther, L. Behr, S. Wagner, J. Jungclaus, E. Zorita, A. Toreti, D. Fleitmann, A. Izdebski and K. Bloomfield -- Resilience and adaptation at the end of Antiquity. An evaluation of the impact of climate change in the Late Roman Western-Central Anatolia / Paolo Maranzana -- The social metabolism of past societies : a new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (SW Turkey) / Dries Daems, Ralf Vandam, Sam Cleymans, Nils Broothaerts, Stef Boogers, Hideko Matsuo and Adnan Mirhanoğlu.