Ebook: Surviving Sudden Environmental Change
Author: Payson Sheets, Jago Cooper
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: University Press of Colorado
- City: Sebastopol
- Language: English
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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. Many disasters originate from a force Read more...
Content: Foreword; Chapter Abstracts; Introduction; 1. Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands; 2. Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America; 3. Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood: Volcanic Hazards in Iceland; 4. Fail to Prepare, Then Prepare to Fail: Rethinking Threat, Vulnerability, and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean; 5. Collation, Correlation, and Causation in the Prehistory of Coastal Peru. 6. Silent Hazards, Invisible Risks: Prehispanic Erosion in the Teotihuacan Valley, Central Mexico7. Domination and Resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia; 8. Long-Term Vulnerability and Resilience: Three Examples from Archaeological Study in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico; 9. Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience: Some Concluding Thoughts; 10. Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes; Contributors; Index.
Abstract: 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. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifewa