COVER -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Bridging a Disciplinary Gap -- Section I: Americas -- Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event -- Environment and Agency in the Ancient Maya Collapse -- Rainfall Variability and the Rise and Collapse of the Mississippian Chiefdoms: Evidence From a DeSoto Caverns Stalagmite -- Building Resilience in Island Communities: A Paleotempestological Perspective -- Recent Seasonal Variations in Arid Landscape Cover and Aeolian Sand Mobility, Navajo Nation, Southwestern United States -- Section II: Asia -- Utilization of Distal Tephra Records for Understanding Climatic and Environmental Consequences of the Youngest Toba Tuff -- An Abrupt Shift in the Indian Monsoon 4000 Years Ago -- Late Holocene Drought Pattern Over West Asia -- Geomorphological Constraints on the Ghaggar River Regime During the Mature Harappan Period -- A Simulation of the Neolithic Transition in the Indus Valley -- Mid-to-Late Holocene Agricultural System Transformations in the Northern Fertile Crescent: A Review Archaeobotanical, Geoarchaeological, and Philological Evidence -- Late Holocene Evolution of the Fuzhou Basin (Fujian, China) and the Spread of Rice Farming -- Climate-Induced Changes in Population Dynamics of Siberian Scythians (700-250 B.C.) -- Section III: Africa -- Geoarchaeological Perspectives on Holocene Climate Change as a Civilizing Factor in the Egyptian Sahara -- Heavy Rainfalls in a Desert(ed) City: A Climate-Archaeological Case Study From Sudan -- Section IV: Europe -- The Influence of Transgressive Paleogeography on the Development and Decline of Cardium Pottery Culture (Mediterranean Neolithic) -- A Dynamic Human Socioecology of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Ulster -- Section V: New Approaches and Discussions -- Influences of Active Tectonism on Human Development: A Review and Neolithic Example.

Irragric Anthrosols-Artifacts of Human Adaptation to Arid Conditions: Examples From the High Himalaya and the Coastal Desert of Peru -- Hunter-Gatherers, Agriculturalists, and Climate: Insights From a Cross-Disciplinary Review -- AGU Category Index -- Index.