Book ID: CBB000101877

Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response (2001)

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Bawden, Garth (Editor)
Reycraft, Richard Martin (Editor)


Maxwell Museum of Anthropology


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: x + 228 pp., illus., maps, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Curtis Runnels: Anthropogenic soil erosion in prehistoric Greece: The contribution of regional surveys to the archaeology of environmental disruptions and human response; Kathleen D. Morrison: Naturalizing disaster: From drought to famine in southern India; Juris Zarins: Environmental disruption and human response: An archaeological-historical example from South Arabia; Fredrik T. Hiebert: Bronze Age Central Eurasian cultures in their steppe and desert environments; Gregory L. Possehl: Drying up of the Sarasvati: Environmental disruption in South Asian prehistory; Harvey Weiss: Beyond the Younger Dryas: Collapse as adaptation to abrupt climate change in ancient West Asia and the eastern Mediterranean; Richard Martin Reycraft: Long-term human response to El Niño in south coastal Peru, circa A.D. 1400; Claude Chapdelaine: Struggling for survival: The urban class at the Moche site, north coast of Peru; Robert S. Santley, et al.: When day turned to night: Volcanism and the archaeological record from the Tuxtla Mountains, southern Veracruz, Mexico; Alan L. Kolata: Environmental thresholds and the “natural history” of an Andean civilization; Linda Cordell: Aftermath of chaos in the Pueblo Southwest; Vernon L. Scarborough: Resilience, resource use, and socioeconomic organization: A Mesoamerican pathway; David S. Gutzler: Human response to environmental disruption: A climatological perspective; Michael E. Mosely: Confronting natural disaster.


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Authors & Contributors
Wood, Gillen D'Arcy
Damiata, Brian N.
Carro, Domenico
Patricio Flores
Munger, Michael Sean
Sinensky, R. J.
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Environmental History
Antiquity
Publishers
Yale University Press
MIT Press
Pearson Education Resources Italia
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
White Horse Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Environmental history
Volcanoes and volcanology
Ecology
Environmental degradation
Environmental sciences
People
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de
Raffles, Thomas Stamford
Pliny the Elder
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
20th century
18th century
Medieval
21st century
Places
Mediterranean region
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Danube river
Nile River
Mississippi River (North America)
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