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Title:
Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters / edited by, Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets ; authors, David A. Abbott ... [et al.].
Publisher:
University Press of Colorado,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xxi, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Environmental archaeology--Case studies.
Social archaeology--Case studies.
Natural disasters--History--History--To 1500.
Climatic changes--History--History--To 1500.
Human ecology--History--To 1500.
Human beings--History--History--To 1500.
Social evolution--History--To 1500.
Social change--History--To 1500.
Other Authors:
Cooper, Jago.
Sheets, Payson D.
Abbott, David A.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 VeĢsteinsson -- 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 -- Archaeological Overview: Social Evolution, Hazards, and Resilience : Some Concluding Thoughts / Timothy A. Kohler -- Ecodynamics and Resilience Overview: Global Environmental Change, Resilience, and Sustainable Outcomes / Charles L. Redman.
ISBN:
1607321688 (ebook)
9781607321682 (ebook)
160732167X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781607321675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)761334845
LCCN:
2011045973
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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