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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Main Author: Cooper, Jago
Other Authors: Sheets, Payson D., Abbott, David A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. University Press of Colorado ©2012, 2012
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505 0 |a 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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