Migration and Climate Change

Glossary

Anatomically modern humans:

the present human species.

Apocalypse:

the revelation of the destiny of humanity.

(The) Armless Woman:

a dramatic myth or tale in which a young girl's hands or arms are mutilated to create animals.

ATU catalog:

the classification of storybook and fable frameworks from oral traditions.

Aurignacian:

the first European culture of anatomically modern humans dating from between the Heinrich events 4 and 3 (H4 and H3). A multiplication and diversification of artistic productions characterize this culture.

Biome:

a large type of biogeographical region determined by its climate (temperature, precipitation). A synthetic and universal list of biomes in 15 items includes desert and mountain regions, abiotic zones, alpine lawns and deserts. For the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, open tundra is distinct from taiga, the boreal coniferous forest. For temperate regions, we can distinguish temperate coniferous forests (cold temperate climate, humid), deciduous and mixed temperate forests (temperate, humid), temperate grasslands, savannahs and shrub lands (temperate, semi-arid), and finally Mediterranean forests, woodlands and scrub. For tropical and subtropical regions, the list of biomes includes tropical and subtropical coniferous forests, tropical and subtropical humid deciduous forests or rainforests, tropical and subtropical dry deciduous forests or tropical forests, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannahs and shrub lands (semi-arid climate), mangroves ...