El Niño, catastrophism, and culture change in ancient America
By: editors, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Jeffrey Quilter.
Contributors: Sandweiss, Daniel H.; Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-; Dumbarton Oaks.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; [Cambridge, Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780884023531
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses; Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses; Climate and civilization -- Latin America -- Congresses; El Niño Current -- Environmental aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses; El Niño Current -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers from a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12th-13th October, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Climate, catastrophe, and culture in the ancient Americas / Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter; title: Paleoclimate from ice cores : a framework for archaeological interpretations / Paul Andrew Mayweski; title: El Niño and interannual variability of climate in the Western Hemisphere / Kirk Allen Maasch; title: Climate change, El Niño, and the rise of complex society on the Peruvian coast during the middle Holocene / James B. Richardson III and Daniel H. Sandweiss; title: Catastrophe and the emergence of political complexity : a social anthropological model / Paul Roscoe; title: Deciphering the politics of prehistoric El Niño events on the north coast of Peru / Brian R. Billman and Gary Huckleberry; title: Deadly deluges in the southern desert : modern and ancient El Niños in the Osmore region of Peru / Michael E. Moseley and David K. Keefer; title: Marching to disaster: the catastrophic convergence of Inca imperial policy, sand flies, and El Niño in the 1524 Andean epidemic / James B. Kiracofe and John S. Marr; title: Armageddon to the Garden of Eden : explosive volcanic eruptions and societal resilience in ancient Middle America / Payson Sheets; title: The collapse of Maya civilization : assessing the interaction of culture, climate, and environment / Jason Yaeger and David A. Hodell; title: And the waters took them : catastrophic flooding and civilization on the Mexican Gulf Coast / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson.