Going Forward by Looking Back

Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

Felix Riede, Payson Sheets (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

458 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-928-4 (ISBN)

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Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries.

Felix Riede is Professor of Archaeology at Aarhus University in Denmark. He heads the Laboratory for Past Disaster Science, and his research focuses on the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Europe.

List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables

Introduction: Framing Catastrophes Archaeologically

Felix Riede and Payson Sheets

Section I: Fire

Chapter 1. Do Deep-Time Disasters Hold Lessons for Contemporary Understandings of Resilience and Vulnerability?: The Case of the Laacher See Volcanic Eruption

Felix Riede and Rowan Jackson

Chapter 2. Risky Business and the Future of the Past: Nuclear Power in the Ring of Fire

Karen Holmberg

Chapter 3. Do Disasters Always Enhance Inequality?

Payson Sheets

Chapter 4. Political Participation and Social Resilience to the 536/540 CE Atmospheric Catastrophe

Peter Neal Peregrine

Chapter 5. Collapse, Resilience, and Adaptation: An Archaeological Perspective on Continuity and Change in Hazardous Environments

Robin Torrence

Chapter 6. Continuity in the Face of a Slowly Unfolding Catastrophe: The Persistence of Icelandic Settlement Despite Large-Scale Soil Erosion

Andrew Dugmore, Rowan Jackson, David Cooper, Anthony Newton, Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Richard Streeter, Viðar Hreinsson, Stefani Crabtree, George Hambrecht, Megan Hicks and Tom McGovern

Chapter 7. Coping through Connectedness: A Network-Based Modeling Approach Using Radiocarbon Data from the Kuril Islands of Northeast Asia

Erik Gjesfjeld and William A. Brown

Section II: Water

Chapter 8. The Materiality of Heritage Post-disaster: Negotiating Urban Politics, People, and Place through Collaborative Archaeology

Kelly M. Britt

Chapter 9. Mound-Building and the Politics of Disaster Debris

Shannon Lee Dawdy

Chapter 10. Catastrophe And Collapse in the Late Pre-Hispanic Andes: Responding for Half a Millennium to Political Fragmentation And Climate Stress

Nicola Sharratt

Chapter 11. Beyond One-Shot Hypotheses: Explaining Three Increasingly Large Collapses in the Northern Pueblo Southwest

Timothy A. Kohler, Laura J. Ellyson, and R. Kyle Bocinsky

Chapter 12. Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and Modern Southwest Germany

Detlef Gronenborn, Hans-Christoph Strien, Kai Wirtz, Peter Turchin, Christoph Zielhofer, and Rolf van Dick

Chapter 13. El Niño as Catastrophe on the Peruvian Coast

Daniel H. Sandweiss and Kirk A. Maasch

Chapter 14. A Slow Catastrophe: Anthropocene Futures and Cape Town’s “Day Zero”

Nick Shepherd

Conclusion: Rewriting the Disaster Narrative, an Archaeological Imagination

Mark Schuller

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Catastrophes in Context
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-928-1 / 1800739281
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-928-4 / 9781800739284
Zustand	Neuware