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Informationen zum Autor At the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Naomi F. Miller is Research Project Manager in the Near East Section, Katherine M. Moore is Consulting Scholar in the American Section, and Kathleen Ryan is Consulting Scholar in the African Section. Klappentext Bringing an archaeological eye to an examination of human response to unpredictable environmental conditions, this volume develops a picture of how societies perceive environmental risk, how they alter their behavior in the face of changing conditions, and under what challenges the most rapid and far-reaching changes in adaptation have taken place. Zusammenfassung Explores how societies adapt to environmental changes across diverse regions and time scales, blending archaeological insights with contemporary perspectives. It unveils forces of conservatism and innovation, unraveling the dynamics of human response to unpredictable conditions and major historical transitions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures Tables Contributors Foreword Preface Introduction: Sustainable Lifeways —Naomi F Miller and Katherine M. Moore 1 "Living with a Moving Target": Long-term Climatic Variability and Environmental Risk in Dryland Regions —Neil Roberts 2 Prehistoric Pastoralists and Social Responses to Climatic Risk in East Africa —Fiona Marshall, Katherine Grillo, and Lee Arco 3 Spreading Risk in Risky Environments: An East African Example —Kathleen Ryan and Karega-Munene 4 Risk and Resilience among Contemporary Pastoralists in Southwestern Iran —Lois Beck and Julia Huang 5 Change and Stability in an Uncertain Environment: Foraging Strategies in the Levant from the Early Natufian through the Beginning of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B —Arlene M. Rosen 6 Explaining the Structure and Timing of Formation of Pueblo I Villages in the Northern U.S. Southwest —Timothy A. Kohler and Charles Reed 7 Mitigating Environmental Risk in the U.S. Southwest —Katherine A. Spielmann, Margaret Nelson, Scott Ingram, and Matthew A. Peeples 8 Farmers' Experience and Knowledge: Utilizing Soil Diversity to Mitigate Rainfall Variability on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia —Maria C. Bruno 9 Grace Under Pressure: Responses to Changing Environments by Herders and Fishers in the Formative Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia —Katherine M. Moore 10 Periodic Volcanism, Persistent Landscapes, and the Archaeofaunal Record in the Jama Valley of Western Ecuador —Peter W. Stahl 11 Managing Predictable Unpredictability: Agricultural Sustainability at Gordion, Turkey —Naomi F. Miller Index ...
