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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 fa...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781934536322 |
| Index Number: | GF78 |
| CLC: | X22 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Sustainable Lifeways / 1. "Living with a Moving Target": Long-term Climatic Variability and Environmental Risk in Dryland Regions / 2. Prehistoric Pastoralists and Social Responses to Climatic Risk in East Africa / 3. Spreading Risk in Risky Environments: An East African Example / 4. Risk and Resilience among Contemporary Pastoralists in Southwestern Iran / 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 / 6. Explaining the Structure and Timing of Formation of Pueblo I Villages in the Northern U.S. Southwest / 7. Mitigating Environmental Risk in the U.S. Southwest / 8. Farmers Experience and Knowledge: Utilizing Soil Diversity to Mitigate Rainfall Variability on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia / 9. Grace Under Pressure: Responses to Changing Environments by Herders and Fishers in the Formative Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia / 10. Periodic Volcanism, Persistent Landscapes, and the Archaeofaunal Record in the Jama Valley of Western Ecuador / 11. Managing Predictable Unpredictability: Agricultural Sustainability at Gordion, Turkey / Index. |