Human adaptation strategies to abrupt climate change in Puerto Rico ca. 3.5 ka

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 627-640

  Rivera Collazo, Isabel ^a   Winter, Amos ^b   Scholz, Denis ^c   Mangini, Augusto ^d   Miller, Thomas ^b   Kushnir, Yochanan ^e   Black, David ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation strategies; archaic period; Caribbean archaeology; climate change; Puerto Rico; speleothem

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AQUIFER; ARCHAEOLOGY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CATCHMENT; DECISION MAKING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECHARGE; RELOCATION; RISK PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SPELEOTHEM; VULNERABILITY;

BARCELONETA; PUERTO RICO;

MARUCA;

EID: 84924874365     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614565951     Document Type: Article

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