Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters /

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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cooper, Jago, Sheets, Payson D., Abbott, David A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2012.
Temas:
To 1500
Environmental archaeology > Case studies.
Social archaeology > Case studies.
Natural disasters > Social aspects > History > To 1500.
Climatic changes > Social aspects > History > To 1500.
Human ecology > History > To 1500.
Human beings > Effect of climate on > History > To 1500.
Social evolution > History > To 1500.
Social change > History > To 1500.
Archéologie de l'environnement > Études de cas.
Archéologie sociale > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Climatic changes > Social aspects
Environmental archaeology
Human beings > Effect of climate on
Human ecology
Natural disasters > Social aspects
Social archaeology
Social change
Social evolution
"Multi-User"
Case studies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Social evolution, hazards, and resilience : some concluding thoughts / Timothy A. Kohler
  • Global environmental change, resilience, and sustainable outcomes / Charles L. Redman.

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