The threshold of vulnerability
pt. 1. Pumps and conveyor belts. The late ice age orchestra, 18,000 to 13,500 B.C.
The virgin continent, 15,000 to 11,000 B.C.
Europe during the great warming, 15,000 to 11,000 B.C.
The thousand-year drought, 11,000 to 10,000 B.C.
pt. 2. The centuries of summer. The cataclysm, 10,000 to 4000 B.C.
Droughts and cities, 6200 to 1900 B.C.
Gifts of the desert, 6000 to 3100 B.C.
pt. 3. The distance between good and bad fortune. The dance of air and ocean, 2200 to 1200 B.C.
Celts and Romans, 1200 to A.D. 900
The great droughts, A.D. 1 to 1200
Magnificent ruins, A.D. 1 to 1200
Epilogue. A.D. 1200 to modern times.