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

Title
Environmental disaster and the archaeology of human response / edited by Garth Bawden and Richard Martin Reycraft.
Publication
Albuquerque, N.M. : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Bawden, Garth
  • Reycraft, Richard Martin
Description
x, 228 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
Series Statement
Anthropological papers ; no. 7
Uniform Title
Anthropological papers (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) no. 7.
Subject
  • Prehistoric peoples > Congresses
  • Human beings > Effect of environment on > Congresses
  • Archaeology and natural disasters > Congresses
  • Natural disasters > Congresses
  • Prehistoric peoples
  • Human beings > Effect of environment on
  • Archaeology and natural disasters
  • Natural disasters
Note
  • Based on papers presented at a symposium held at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Nashville in April 1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.].
  • 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.
ISBN
0912535148
LCCN
^^2001018045
OCLC
  • 45708208
  • SCSB-10503217
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library