This paper explores the possible links between rapid climate change (RCC) and social
change in the Near East and surrounding regions (Anatolia, central Syria, southern Israel …

Rock shelters in the central Saharan massifs preserve anthropogenic stratigraphic
sequences that represent both a precious archive for the prehistory of the region and a …

The first complex, highly organised, state-level societies emerged in the Afro-Asiatic
monsoon belt and northern South America during the 6th and early 5th millennia BP. This …

In Mediterranean and north-African regions, cultural trajectories have shown trends
sometimes coincident with climatic changes. The mid Holocene was a period of intense …

New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and
Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the …

Climate change poses a challenge to the dominant development paradigm with its concepts
of modernisation, economic growth and globalisation which treat the environment as an …

Cattle pastoralism is an important trait of African cultures. Ethnographic studies describe the
central role played by domestic cattle within many societies, highlighting its social and …

Little is known about the beginnings and spread of food production in the tropics, but recent
research suggests that definitions that depend on morphological change may hamper …

The origins and development of pastoralism in Saharan North Africa involves societies and
economies that, subjected to profound climatic changes and progressive desertification …

The timing and extent of the adoption and exploitation of domesticates and their secondary
products, across Holocene North Africa, has long been the subject of debate. The three …