Surviving sudden environmental change
Subtitle: understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters
By: editors, Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets ; authors, David A. Abbott ... [et al.].
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781607321675; 9781607321682
Subjects: Climatic changes; Effect of climate on; Social archaeology; Social change; Natural disasters; Environmental archaeology; Human beings; Human ecology; History; Social evolution; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Learning to Live with the Dangers of Sudden Environmental Change / Payson Sheets and Jago Cooper; title: Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands / Ben Fitzhugh; title: Responses to Explosive Volcanic Eruptions by Small to Complex Societies in Ancient Mexico and Central America / Payson Sheets; title: Black Sun, High Flame, and Flood : Volcanic Hazards in Iceland / Andrew Dugmore and Orri Vésteinsson; title: Fail to Prepare then Prepare to Fail : Re-thinking Threat Vulnerability and Mitigation in the Precolumbian Caribbean / Jago Cooper; title: Collation, Correlation, and Causation in the Prehistory of Coastal Peru / Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter; title: Silent Hazards, Invisible Risks : Prehispanic Erosion in the Teotihuacan Valley, Central Mexico / Emily McClung de Tapia; title: Domination and Resilience in Bronze Age Mesopotamia / Tate Paulette; title: 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; title: Archaeological Overview: Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience : Some Concluding Thoughts / Timothy A. Kohler; title: Ecodynamics and Resilience Overview: Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes / Charles L. Redman.