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Title:

El Ni©ło, catastrophism, and culture change in ancient America / editors, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Jeffrey Quilter.

Publisher:

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ;

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

viii, 290 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

El Ni©ło Current--History--Latin America--History--Congresses.
El Ni©ło Current--History--Latin America--History--Congresses.
Climatic changes--History--Latin America--History--Congresses.
Climatic changes--History--Latin America--History--Congresses.
Climate and civilization--Latin America--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Sandweiss, Daniel H.
Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Dumbarton Oaks.

Notes:

Papers from a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12th-13th October, 2002. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

0884023532
9780884023531

OCLC:

(OCoLC)173809022

LCCN:

2007039441

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)