Surviving Sudden Environmental Change - Answers from Archaeology

Informationen zum Autor Jago Cooper is an Arts and Humanities Research Council research associate and lectures at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London. Payson Sheets is a professor of anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Klappentext Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change , case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped with such dangers Zusammenfassung Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regions, from tropical rainforests to desert interiors, and from deep prehistory to living memory-faced and coped with such dangers

Product details

• Authors: Jago Cooper, Jago (EDT)/ Sheets Cooper
• Assisted by: Jago Cooper (Editor), Payson Sheets (Editor), Payson D. Sheets (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Of Colorado
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2012
• EAN: 9781607321675
• ISBN: 978-1-60732-167-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity