Surviving sudden environmental change

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

by Abbott, David A. Cooper, Jago Sheets, Payson D.

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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.

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  • Full title :Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters / edited by Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets ; authors, David Abbott [and others].

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2012.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781607321682, 1607321688, 9781457117282, 1457117282, 9781457117268, 1457117266
  • oclc:ocn775603907
  • LC Classification:CC81
  • Dewey Decimal:930.1

Table of 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. P…

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Subjects

Archéologie de l'environnement -- Étude… Archéologie sociale -- Études de cas Case studies Climatic changes -- Social aspects Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- T… Environmental archaeology Environmental archaeology -- Case studi… History Human beings -- Effect of climate on Human beings -- Effect of climate on --… human ecology Human ecology -- History -- To 1500 Multi-User Natural disasters -- Social aspects Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- … Social archaeology Social archaeology -- Case studies Social change Social change -- History -- To 1500 Social evolution

Writers

Abbott, David A. Cooper, Jago Sheets, Payson D.

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