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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.
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.
The first volume presents new archaeological and ecological data
and analyses on the relation between human subsistence and
survival, and the natural history of North-Western Europe
throughout the period 10000 - 6000 BC. The volume contains
contributions from ecological oriented archaeologists and from the
natural sciences, throwing new light on the physical and
biotic/ecological conditions of relevance to the earliest
settlement. Main themes are human subsistence, subsistence
technology, ecology and food availability pertaining to the first
humans, and demographic patterns among humans linked to the
accessibility of different landscapes.
In the late spring some 13,000 years ago, the Laacher See volcano
in present-day western Germany erupted. The area in the immediate
vicinity of the volcano was completely destroyed, covering and
preserving, Pompeii-like, a prehistoric landscape complete with
traces of plant, animal and human activity. But what was the impact
of this cataclysm on the Final Paleolithic hunter-gatherer
communities that occupied nothern Europe at that time? This book
presents a new take on the cultural evolution of these forager
groups, seen in light of the Laacher See eruption. Rooted in a
framework of vulnerability and resilience, the author makes a
powerful and multidisciplinary argument for how the ecological and
sociological consequences of the eruption led to, in particular,
the emergence of the hitherto ill-understood Bromme culture that
comes into existence in southern Scandinavia just after the
eruption. The primary aim of this book is to integrate archaeology
and volcanology in a better understanding of this remarkable
episode of culture change in Europe's deep past. At the same time
the author makes and argument that archaeological and historical
studies of extreme event such as volcanic eruptions can and should
play a greater role in historically informed, evidence-based
decision making procedures in contemporary risk reduction policies.
Volcanic eruptions can affect everything - nature, wildlife,
people. From the earliest times, human resilience has been tested
by this most severe environmental hazard resulting in a variety of
collective responses - from despair and helplessness to endurance,
increased worship of the gods, and even mass migrations. Past
vulnerability breaks new ground by examining the histories of
extreme environmental events, from the resent eruptions of Mount
Merapi in Central Java to the prehistoric Toba supervolcanic
eruption 74.000 years ago on the island of Sumatra. Experts from a
broad and unconventional range of disciplines - from anthropology
to literature studies and from archaeology to theology - discuss
the impacts of volcanic eruptions in human history and prehistory.
The book sets the scene for a 'palaeosocial volcanology' that
complements and extends current approaches to volcanic hazards in
the natural and social sciences by presenting historically informed
and evidence-based analyses on how traditional societies dealt with
these dangers -- or failed to do so.
Miikka Tallavaara's name is spelled "Tallaavaara" on title page.
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