Crisis to collapse
Subtitle: the archaeology of social breakdown
By: edited by Tim Cunningham & Jan Driessen
Series: Aegis -- 11 -- Actes de colloques; Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium) -- 11; Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium)
Publisher: UCL, Presses universitaires de Louvain
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Louvain-la-Neuve
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9782875585264; 9782875585271
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Zusammenbruch; Gesellschaft; Funde; Ausgrabung; Soziologie; Niedergang; Kulturwandel; Antike; Social archaeology; Congresses; Regression (Civilization); Civilization; History; Archaeology; Archéologie sociale; Actes de congrès; Civilisation; Histoire; Décadence
Description: This volume comprises the proceedings of a workshop with the same title which took place in October 2015. It was organised within the frame of the ARC13/18-049 (concerted research action) 'A World in Crisis?'. It has both a large chronological scope - from the Late Palaeolithic to the 12th c. AD - and wide geographical coverage, with case studies from the Maya, Southern US, Aegean, Sri Lanka, Indus, Gaul, Southern Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, North-western Europe, Alaska and Mesopotamia. It discusses and critically analyses the variety of signatures and archaeological correlates of crisis conditions that led to social breakdown. As such it makes massive strides forward to a better theoretical understanding of crisis-induced collapse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.