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This book is devoted to the environmental history of the Pacific Basin, including the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and the continental margins of the Pacific Rim. The text opens with introductions to the geography of this region, the methods used to study past environments, and the history of scientific thought on the origin of the Pacific Basin. Nunn explores tectonic, climatic, oceanographic, and biotic changes in this region during the Precambrian, Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras. The Quaternary period is examined in detail, with chapters on chronology, the early and middle Pleistocene, the Last Interglacial, the Last Glacial, the arrival of human populations in the Pacific Basin, the early Holocene, middle Holocene, and late Holocene. Each of these chapters presents regional evidence from Antarctica, South America, Central America, North America, Beringia, East Asia, Australasia, and the Pacific islands. Several topics are emphasized in the final chapters, including the Younger Dryas, human impacts on Pacific environments, middle Holocene sea-level changes, and tectonics and volcanism in the Pacific Basin. computer an effective learning experience for be- ginning geology GEODe II animations, illustrations, interactive exercises present basic geological concepts in six main sections. first the layered structure of the earth, features of the continents, and the ocean floor. minerals and rock types. on internal processes includes plate tectonics, crustal deformation, earthquakes, and igneous activity. The external processes such as the hydrologic cycle, running water, ground water, glaciers, deserts, and coastal processes. the geologic time scale, relative dating, and radiometric dating. The final section on landforms and Chapter 4 focuses on the australopithecines and Homo habilis. A new Chapter 5, entitled “Evolution of the Genus Homo, ” replaces the first edition’s separate chapters on H. erectus and early H. sapiens. Chapters 6 and 7 examine Neanderthals and their contemporaries, and modern H. sapiens, respectively. All chapters have been revised and updated in this edition, and the text features many new illustra- tions. The book has an exhaustive bibliography, along with reference and site indexes. revised comprehensive overview of paleoclimatology and Quaternary environmental changes. In the opening chapters Bradley introduces the concepts of climatic variation and paleoclimatic reconstruction. The second edition of the text contains new material on age determination (calibration of the radiocarbon time scale, amino acid geochronology, thermoluminescence, optically stimulated luminescence, and infrared stimulated luminescence), a new chapter on ice cores, an updated chapter on marine sediments and past ocean circulation, new sections on corals, alkenones, loess, and lacustrine sediments, and revised chapters on palynology, tree rings, and historical records. A new chapter on paleoclimate models emphasizes the use of general circulation models in paleoclimatology. This edition contains many new ref-erences and figures. geography of this region and environmental changes during the late Quaternary. Chapter 2 presents the arrival of human populations in the Americas, the peopling of the Colorado region, and the Paleoindian period of occupation in Colorado. Subsequent chapters examine local adaptations to different ecolog- ical and social conditions in the Plains and in the southwestern, northwestern, and Rocky Mountain regions of Colorado. The final chapter focuses on the history of the Numic and Algonquin ethnographic groups and the historic trade networks of the Plains region. Three appendixes list the plants, terrestrial animals, fish, and shellfish of Colorado, and each species is classified by environmental or elevation zone. The development of a global oxygen isotope stratigraphy and advances in geochronological methods allow this comprehensive re-evaluation of the correlation of Quaternary deposits in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The opening chapter introduces the correlation and classification of terrestrial and marine Quaternary deposits. The remaining 10 chapters focus on regions of the British Isles, including eastern England, the English Midlands, the Thames Valley, South and Southeast England, Southwest England, Wales, northern England, Scotland, Ireland, and the continental shelf. Each chapter describes regional stratigraphical units, and a summary table shows the correlation of Quaternary deposits within each region according to the chronology of the oxygen isotope record. processes and products, soil formation and the development of soil profiles, the importance of parent materials, time, and climate, paleoclimatic interpretations, and the application of soils to geomor-phological, sedimentological, and environmental studies. This edition contains new data on tropical soil development, reduction processes, neotectonics, and the global soil-loess record. Two new appendixes focus on the description of soil properties and the calculation of the profile-development index. This book recounts the development and growth of the field of dendrochronology and its application to archaeology in North America between 1914 and 1950. The author introduces archaeological tree-ring dating in Chapter 1, with brief descriptions of the principles of dendrochronology and the history of this field. Chapter 2 examines the pioneering tree-ring research of A.E. Douglass. Chapter 3 chronicles archaeological tree-ring dating at the University of Arizona between 1929 and 1945. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 describe dendrochronological work conducted by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation, the Museum of Northern Arizona, and the Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe. Chapter 7 discusses early tree-ring dating in the American Midwest, and Chapter 8 focuses on J.L. Giddings’ dendrochronological research in Alaska. The final chapter evaluates the contribution of tree-ring dating to North American archaeology. This collection of 15 papers examines the extensive paleoenvironmental and archaeological research in the vicinity of Wadi Teshuinat in the Libyan Sahara. Topics include analyses of rock art by Libyan and Italian collaborators, late Quaternary geological evidence, paleosols in the Tadrart Acacus massif area, travertine deposits in caves and shelters, TL and OSL dating of fossil dunes, mollusc assemblages in Holocene lacustrine deposits, faunal remains from Holocene archaeological sites, pollen analysis of dung layers in caves and shelters, pollen data from the Uan Muhuggiag rockshelter, early Holocene cultures at the Uan Afuda cave, archaeological evidence from the Uan Tabu rockshelter, pottery from the Tadrart Acacus, lithics, pottery, and faunal remains from the Uan Telocat rockshelter, funerary practices and population dynamics between 8000 and 5000 yr B.P., and a geoarchaeological survey of the central Tadrart Acacus region.