Climate Crises in Human History considers the response of selected cultures to climate events that have been documented from the archaeological and geological records. It includes articles by participants in a 2008 conference at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as well as other prominent scholars. The essays, which range over the Americas, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Near East, and over several millenia, may serve as a corrective to dogmatic claims about the future of climate and of mankind, and as a spur to the dispassionate study of both.
 
 
This is a very timely collection that will advance understanding among scientists and humanists, of climatic impacts on past (and perhaps future) societies. The selection of topics and contributors achieve wide coverage of what is a very broad subject by mixing substantive regional and temporal case histories.
David R. Harris, FBA
Emeritus Professor of Human Environment
Institute of Archaeology, University College London