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An Enduring Technology: The Horse Logging Tradition In Maine, James E. Passanisi Dec 2009

An Enduring Technology: The Horse Logging Tradition In Maine, James E. Passanisi

Maine History

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Cultural Responses To Climate Change In The Holocene, Richard Prentice Jun 2009

Cultural Responses To Climate Change In The Holocene, Richard Prentice

Anthós

Variable Holocene climate conditions have caused cultures to thrive, adapt or fail. The invention of agriculture and the domestication of plants and animals allowed sedentary societies to develop and are the result of the climate becoming warmer after the last glaciation. The subsequent cooling of the Younger Dryas forced humans to concentrate into geographic areas that had an abundant water supply and ultimately favorable conditions for the use of agriculture and widespread domestication of plants and animals. Population densities would have reached a threshold and forced a return to foraging, however the end of the Younger Dryas at 10,000 BP …


Comments On The Ship’S Log Kept By Captain Ephraim Jones Of A Voyage From Falmouth To Bermuda And The Turks Islands,1765, Charles P.M. Outwin Apr 2009

Comments On The Ship’S Log Kept By Captain Ephraim Jones Of A Voyage From Falmouth To Bermuda And The Turks Islands,1765, Charles P.M. Outwin

Maine History

Willis Collection, volume K, rear, Maine Historical Society Collections