| Description |
1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Learning to Live with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental Change / Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper -- Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands / Ben Fitzhugh -- Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America / Payson Sheets -- Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood : Volcanic Hazards in Iceland / Andrew Dugmore and Orri Vésteinsson -- Fail to Prepare then Prepare to Fail : Re-thinking Threat Vulnerability and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean / Jago Cooper -- Collation, Correlation, and Causation in the Prehistory of Coastal Peru / Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter -- Silent Hazards, Invisible Risks : Prehispanic Erosion in the Teotihuacan Valley, Central Mexico / Emily McClung de Tapia -- Domination and Resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia / Tate Paulette -- Long-Term Vulnerability and Resilience : Three Examples from Archaeological Study in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico / Margaret C. Nelson, Michelle Hegmon, Keith W. Kintigh, Ann P. Kinzig, Ben A. Nelson, John M. Anderies, David A. Abbott, Katherine A. Spielmann, Scott E. Ingram, Matthew A. Peeples, Stephanie Kulow, Colleen A. Strawhacker, Cathryn Meegan -- Archaeological Overview: Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience : Some Concluding Thoughts / Timothy A. Kohler -- Ecodynamics and Resilience Overview: Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes / Charles L. Redman |
| Summary |
Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped with such dangers |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Environmental archaeology -- Case studies
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Social archaeology -- Case studies
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Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
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Human ecology -- History -- To 1500
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Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- History -- To 1500
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Social evolution -- History -- To 1500
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Social change -- History -- To 1500
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Social Science -- Archaeology.
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Human beings -- Effect of climate on
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Environmental archaeology
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Human ecology
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Natural disasters -- Social aspects
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Social archaeology
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Social change
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Social evolution
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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History
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cooper, Jago
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Sheets, Payson D
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| ISBN |
1607321688 |
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9781607321682 |
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1457117282 |
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9781457117282 |
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160732167X |
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9781607321675 |
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