Surviving Sudden Environmental Change Payson Sheets Jago Cooper by Payson Sheets; Jago Cooper 9781457117282, 9781607321675, 9781607321682, 1457117282, 160732167X, 1607321688 instant download after payment.

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. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifewa.
Content: Foreword; Chapter Abstracts; Introduction; 1. Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands; 2. Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America; 3. Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood: Volcanic Hazards in Iceland; 4. Fail to Prepare, Then Prepare to Fail: Rethinking Threat, Vulnerability, and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean; 5. Collation, Correlation, and Causation in the Prehistory of Coastal Peru. 6. Silent Hazards, Invisible Risks: Prehispanic Erosion in the Teotihuacan Valley, Central Mexico7. Domination and Resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia; 8. Long-Term Vulnerability and Resilience: Three Examples from Archaeological Study in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico; 9. Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience: Some Concluding Thoughts; 10. Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes; Contributors; Index.
Abstract: 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. Many disasters originate from a force of nature, such as an earthquake, cyclone, tsunami, volcanic eruption, drought, or flood. But that is only half of the story; decisions of people and their particular cultural lifewa