The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History
Anthony N. Penna
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: 1118912462
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day.
- Provides a comprehensive, global, multidisciplinary history of the planet from its earliest origins to the present era
- Draws on the most recent research in geology, climatology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, history, demography and the social and physical sciences
- Features the latest research findings on planetary history, human evolution, the green agricultural revolution, climate change, global warming and the nature of world/human history interdependencies
- Offers in-depth analyses of topics relating to human evolution, agriculture, population growth, urbanization, manufacturing, consumption, industrialization, and fossil fuel dependency.
Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media
Reconstructing Nature: Alienation, Emancipation and the Division of Labour
Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
A Field Guide to Mammals: North America north of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides)
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Which 800 years later contained within its walls a population of 50,000 living on 1300 acres. “It consisted of whitewashed mud-brick houses, of a type that can still be found today, with narrow streets running between them. While most were one-story high, wealthier houses often had two stories. In the center, on a ziggurat 12 meters high, stood the White Temple.”16 The city's agricultural lands and pastures extended 9 mi (14.5 km) beyond its walls. The city thrived on the bounty provided by its.
Conditions in the western Indus basin would have been similar to those found in the Tigris and Euphrates region of Mesopotamia from the seventh millennium BCE. During that earlier period, Neolithic farming settlements first appeared on the higher plains of the Indus Valley to avoid the seasonal flooding of the river. With a growing population and the development of technical skills and societal cohesion, farmers confronted the task of cultivating the floodplains. In environmental terms, the.