This book provides a description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of changes in climate and how they affected social and political developments. It includes three major
During the 1960s determinism and reductionism acquired a bad taste, so the oasis theory and other simplistic theories about relationships between people and climate were repudiated. Archaeologists tod
Lowland Susiana, in the modern-day province of Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, was a major contributor to the cultural development of the ancient Near East. Excavations at numerous sites in Susiana, but
