Surviving sudden environmental change understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colo.
University Press of Colorado
©2012, 2012
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Physical Description: | xxi, 256 pages |
| ISBN: | 1457117266 9781607321675 1457117282 160732167X 9781457117282 9781457117268 |