Overview

For more than a century we've known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about fifteen thousand years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human effects of climate variability, Brian Fagan shows how climate functioned as what the historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the ""deeper transformations"" of history--a more important historical factor than we understand.

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""The Long Summer is a fascinating tale of humanity and climate, woven together seamlessly in the cloth of history."" -- ""Richard B. Alley, author of The Two-Mile Time Machine"" ""This highly readable account of climate changes and their impact brings together a very deep knowledge of archaeology with imaginative narrative...A fascinating and provocative book."" -- ""Norman Cantor, author of Antiquity: Civilization of the Ancient World""

The Long Summer is a fascinating tale of humanity and climate, woven together seamlessly in the cloth of history. -- Richard B. Alley, author of The Two-Mile Time Machine This highly readable account of climate changes and their impact brings together a very deep knowledge of archaeology with imaginative narrative...A fascinating and provocative book. -- Norman Cantor, author of Antiquity: Civilization of the Ancient World

"The Long Summer is a fascinating tale of humanity and climate, woven together seamlessly in the cloth of history. -- ""Richard B. Alley, author of The Two-Mile Time Machine"" This highly readable account of climate changes and their impact brings together a very deep knowledge of archaeology with imaginative narrative...A fascinating and provocative book. -- ""Norman Cantor, author of Antiquity: Civilization of the Ancient World"""

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Brian Fagan is America's leading writer on archaeology. Professor Emeritus of archaeology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, he is the author of Floods, Famines, and Emperors, The Great Journey, and many other popular works, and he is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. As the middle of six children, Michael Langan quickly carved out his space in the group; he was the storyteller. Out in the real world, he would gravitate to office and administration roles until he quit his job in 2020, deciding to become a full-time voice-over artist and a background artist in film and television productions. When he's not on set, in his home studio, or being forcibly dragged across rugby fields by his dog Oisin, he can be found in his kitchen, setting off the fire alarm on a regular basis with his attempts at cooking and baking.

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