Environmental disaster and the archaeology of human response / edited by Garth Bawden and Richard Martin Reycraft.

Other author Bawden, Garth.
Other author Reycraft, Richard Martin.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbuquerque, N.M. : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, ©2000.
Descriptionx, 228 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAnthropological papers ; no. 7
Anthropological papers (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) ; no. 7. ^A413014
Contents Anthropogenic soil erosion in prehistoric Greece : the contribution of regional surveys to the archaeology of environmental disruptions and human response / Curtis Runnels -- Naturalizing disaster : from drought to famine in southern India / Kathleen D. Morrison -- Environmental disruption and human response : an archaeological-historical example from south Arabia / Juris Zarins -- Bronze Age Central Eurasian cultures in their steppe and desert environments / Fredrik T. Hiebert -- Drying up of the Sarasvati : environmental disruption in south Asian prehistory / Gregory L. Possehl -- Beyond the Younger Dryas : collapse as adaptation to abrupt climate change in ancient West Asia and the eastern Mediterranean / Harvey Weiss -- Long-term human response to El Niño in south coastal Peru, circa A.D. 1400 / Richard Martin Reycraft -- Struggling for survival : the urban class at the Moche site, north coast of Peru / Claude Chapdelaine -- When day turned to night : volcanism and the archaeological record from the Tuxtla Mountains, southern Veracruz, Mexico / Robert S. Santley ... [et al.].
Contents Environmental thresholds and the "natural history" of an Andean civilization / Alan L. Kolata -- Aftermath of chaos in the Pueblo Southwest / Linda Cordell -- Resilience, resource use, and socioeconomic organization : a Mesoamerican pathway / Vernon L. Scarborough -- Human response to environmental disruption : a climatological perspective / David S. Gutzler -- Confronting natural disaster / Michael E. Mosely.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001018045
ISBN0912535148

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