Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America

by Timothy R. Pauketat

A sweeping account of Medieval North America when Indigenous peoples confronted climate change.

Few Americans today are aware of one of the most consequential periods in North American history--the Medieval Warm Period of seven to twelve centuries ago (AD 800-1300 CE)--which resulted in the warmest temperatures in the northern hemisphere since the "Roman Warm Period," a half millennium earlier. Reconstructing these climatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197645100
• ISBN13: 9780197645109
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"