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Title Surviving sudden environmental change : understanding hazards, mitigating impacts, avoiding disasters / editors, Jago Cooper and Payson Sheets ; authors, David A. Abbott [and others].

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 256 pages)
Bibliography 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 Vésteinsson -- 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.
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Subject Environmental archaeology -- Case studies.
Social archaeology -- Case studies.
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500.
Human ecology -- History -- To 1500.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- History -- To 1500.
Social evolution -- History -- To 1500.
Social change -- History -- To 1500.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864268
Environmental archaeology. (OCoLC)fst00912853
Human beings -- Effect of climate on. (OCoLC)fst00962839
Human ecology. (OCoLC)fst00962941
Natural disasters -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01034021
Social archaeology. (OCoLC)fst01122274
Social change. (OCoLC)fst01122310
Social evolution. (OCoLC)fst01122456
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Chronological Term To 1500
Indexed Term "Multi-User"
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Cooper, Jago.
Sheets, Payson D.
Abbott, David A.
Other Form: Print version: Surviving sudden environmental change. Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2012 9781607321675 (DLC) 2011045973 (OCoLC)761334845
ISBN 9781607321682 (electronic bk.)
1607321688 (electronic bk.)
9781607321675 (electronic bk.)
160732167X (electronic bk.)
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