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Description of  The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past,and their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, migration, and interpersonal violence. Bioarchaeologythe study of archaeological human skeletonsprovides direct evidence of the human experience of past climate and environmental changes and serves as an important complement to paleoclimate, historical, and archaeological approaches to changes we may expect with global warming. Read more