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OverviewPopularist treatments of ancient disasters like volcanic eruptions have grossly overstated their capacity for death, destruction, and societal collapse. Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and, in the long run, have often recovered remarkably well from wide scale disruption and significant mortality. They have often used eruptions as a trigger for environmental enrichment, cultural change, and adaptation. These historical studies are relevant to modern hazard management because they provide records for a far wider range of events and responses than have been recorded in written records, yet are often closely datable and trackable using standard archaeological and geological techniques. Contributors also show the importance of traditional knowledge systems in creating a cultural memory of dangerous locations and community responses to disaster. The global and temporal coverage of the research reported is impressive, comprising studies from North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific, and ranging in time from the Middle Palaeolithic to the modern day. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John Grattan , Robin TorrencePublisher: Left Coast Press Inc Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781598742688ISBN 10: 159874268 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 February 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: Beyond Gloom and Doom: The Long-Term Consequences of Volcanic Disasters; 2: The Campanian Ignimbrite Factor: Towards a Reappraisal of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic ‘Transition'; 3: Chaos and Selection in Catastrophic Environments: Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea; 4: People and Volcanoes in the Zapotitan Valley, El Salvador; 5: Paleoindians and Megafaunal Extinction in the Basin of Mexico: The Role of the 10.5 K Upper Toluca Pumice Eruption; 6: Living with the Volcano: The 11 th Century AD Eruption of Sunset Crater; 7: Ecological Roadblocks on a Constrained Landscape: The Cultural Effects of Catastrophic Holocene Volcanism on the Alaska Peninsula, Southwest Alaska; 8: The Long Shadow: Understanding the Influence of the Laki Fissure Eruption on Human Mortality in Europe; 9: Volcanic Oral Traditions in Hazard Assessment and Mitigation; 10: Geomythology, Theodicy, and the Continuing Relevance of Religious Worldviews on Responses to Volcanic Eruptions; 11: Planning for the Future: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reconstructing the Buag Episode of Mt Pinatubo, Philippines; 12: Archaeology of Fire and Glass: Cultural Adoption of Glass Mountain Obsidian; 13: Beyond the Catastrophe: The Volcanic Landscape of Barú, Western PanamaReviews...The organizers and editors for Living Under the Shadow are to be commended for taking volcanology into the realm of the World Archeological Congress. The book is an excellent contribution to volcanology and archeology/anthropology. If I had run across this book at a meeting I would have flashed my credit card and taken it home. ... -- Grant Heiken, Bull Volcanol """...The organizers and editors for Living Under the Shadow are to be commended for taking volcanology into the realm of the World Archeological Congress. The book is an excellent contribution to volcanology and archeology/anthropology. If I had run across this book at a meeting I would have flashed my credit card and taken it home.""... -- Grant Heiken, Bull Volcanol" Author InformationJohn Grattan is a Reader in the Institute of Geology and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Robin Torrence is Principle Research Scientist in the Department of Anthropology, Australian Museum, Sydney. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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