essay
The world at the end of the last Ice Age
humans at the end of the ice age : the archaeology of the pleistocene-holocene transition • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: 3-9
By: Straus, Lawrence Guy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This introductory chapter of an edited volume sets the tone, asking how humans responded to the environmental transitions of 13,000–8000 years ago. It provides a global perspective on the issues under consideration, framing the regional syntheses in other chapters.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Climate
- Fauna
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Paleo-Indian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- New World
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- New World
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 13,000-8000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- not specified
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lawrence Guy Straus
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 8-9)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96008914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians