Sustainable Lifeways : Cultural Persistence in an Ever-Changing Environment /

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All organisms and species respond to risk in their environment. Regardless of the source of risk, societies, ancient and modern, have to deal with it on several time scales: annual and interannual variability in weather, pests, and other short-term risks; the longer-term changes in climate, soil con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Miller, Naomi Frances, Moore, Katherine M., Ryan, Kathleen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Series:Penn Museum international research conferences ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Sustainable living > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses.
Style de vie durable > Études transculturelles > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Sustainable living.
"Proceedings of "Forces of Nature: Risk and Resilience as Factors of Long- term Cultural Change, " Philadelphia, January 29-February 3, 2008."
"Multi-User"
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sustainable lifeways / Naomi F. Miller, Katherine M. Moore
  • "Living with a moving target": long-term climatic variability and environmental risk in dryland regions / Neil Roberts
  • Prehistoric pastoralists and social responses to climatic risk in east Africa / Fiona Marshall, Katherine Grillo, Lee Arco
  • Spreading risk in risky environments: an East African example / Kathleen Ryan, Karega-Munene
  • Risk and resilience among contemporary pastoralists in southwestern Iran / Lois Beck, Julia Huang
  • Change and stability in an uncertain environment: foraging strategies in the Levant from the early Natufian through the beginning of the pre-pottery neolithic b / Arlene M. Rosen
  • Explaining the structure and timing of formation of pueblo I villages in the northern U.S. southwest / Timothy A. Kohler, Charles Reed
  • Mitigating environmental risk in the US. Southwest / Katherine A. Spielmann [and others]
  • Farmers' experience and knowledge: utilizing soil diversity to mitigate rainfall variability on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia / Maria C. Bruno
  • Grace under pressure: responses to changing environments by herders and fishers in the formative Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia / Katherine M. Moore
  • Periodic volcanism, persistent landscapes, and the archaeofaunal record in the Jama Valley of western Ecuador / Peter W. Stahl
  • Managing predictable unpredictability: agricultural sustainability at Gordion, Turkey / Naomi F. Miller.

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