This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by
presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups
responded to climatic and environmental change. In particular, the
chapters show how these responses are seen in the animal remains that
people left behind in their occupation sites. Many of these bones
represent food remains, so the environments in which these animals lived
can be identified and human use of those environments can be understood.
In the case of climatic change resulting in environmental change, these
animal remains can indicate that a change has occurred, in climate,
environment and human adaptation, and can also indicate the specific
details of those changes.