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El Niño, catastrophism, and culture change in ancient America : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12th-13th October 2002 / ed. Daniel H. Sandweiss, Jeffrey Quilter ...
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Washinton, D.C : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2008Description: VIII, 290 S. : Ill., Kt., graph. DarstISBN:- 9780884023531
- 304.2/5098 22
- 304.25098
- GC296.8.E4
Contents:
Summary: Climate, catastrophe, and culture in the ancient Americas / Daniel H. Sandweiss and Jeffrey Quilter -- Paleoclimate from ice cores : a framework for archaeological interpretations / Paul Andrew Mayweski -- El Niño and interannual variability of climate in the Western Hemisphere / Kirk Allen Maasch -- Climate change, El Niño, and the rise of complex society on the Peruvian coast during the middle Holocene / James B. Richardson III and Daniel H. Sandweiss -- Catastrophe and the emergence of political complexity : a social anthropological model / Paul Roscoe -- Deciphering the politics of prehistoric El Niño events on the north coast of Peru / Brian R. Billman and Gary Huckleberry -- Deadly deluges in the southern desert : modern and ancient El Niños in the Osmore region of Peru / Michael E. Moseley and David K. Keefer -- Marching to disaster: the catastrophic convergence of Inca imperial policy, sand flies, and El Niño in the 1524 Andean epidemic / James B. Kiracofe and John S. Marr -- Armageddon to the Garden of Eden : explosive volcanic eruptions and societal resilience in ancient Middle America / Payson Sheets -- The collapse of Maya civilization : assessing the interaction of culture, climate, and environment / Jason Yaeger and David A. Hodell -- And the waters took them : catastrophic flooding and civilization on the Mexican Gulf Coast / S. Jeffrey K. WilkersonCall number: Grundsignatur: 2009 E 61PPN: PPN: 546354270
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Freihandbestand ausleihbar | Bibliothek Campus Süd | umw 1.3 | Lesesaal Naturwissenschaften (LSN) | 2009 E 61 | Available | 49337334090 |
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