Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East : Diversity in Collapse and Resilience

1. Chapter 1: A historian’s introduction to paleoclimatology -- Chapter 2: A hard row to hoe. Climate change from the crop perspective -- Chapter 3: Who follows the elephant will have problems. Thought on modelling Roman responses to climate (changes) -- Chapter 4: Famines, demographic crises and climate in Italy, 1650-1913 -- Chapter 5: Collapse and resilience in prehistoric archaeology: Questioning concepts and causalities in models of climate-induced societal transformations -- Chapter 6: Climate, state building and political change in Egypt during the Early Bronze Age: a direct relation? -- Chapter 7: Vulnerability to climate change in Late Bronze Age Peloponnese (Greece) -- Chapter 8: 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 -- Chapter 9: Peloponnesian land-use dynamics and climate variability in the first millennium BCE -- Chapter 10: Volcanic eruptions, veiled Suns, and Nile failure in Egyptian history: Integrating hydroclimate into understandings of historical change -- Chapter 11: The environmental imperialism of the Roman Empire in northwestern Europe -- Chapter 12: Seasonal drought on Roman rivers: transport vs. irrigation -- Chapter 13: The Antonine crisis: Climate change as a potential trigger for epidemiological and economic turmoil -- Chapter 14: Climate change and the productive landscape in the Mediterranean region in the Roman period -- Chapter 15: 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–AD 200) -- Chapter 16: Risks for farming families in the Roman World -- Chapter 17: Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement patterns and agriculture in Roman Italy -- Chapter 18: Hydrological changes in Late Antiquity: spatio-temporal characteristics and socio-economic impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 19: Resilience and adaptation at the end of Antiquity. An evaluation of the impact of climate change in Late Roman western-central Anatolia -- Chapter 20: The social metabolism of past societies. A new approach to environmental changes and societal responses in the territory of Sagalassos (Turkey).