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El Niño, catastrophism, and culture change in ancient America
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- Creator
- editors, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Jeffrey Quilter
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- Language
- English
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- Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- viii, 290 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780884023531, 0884023532
- OCLC
- ocn173809022
- Papers from a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 12th-13th October, 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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. Wilkerson
Subjects
- Climatic changes -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses.
- Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses.
- Climate and civilization -- Latin America -- Congresses.
- El Niño Current -- Environmental aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses.
- El Niño Current -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History -- Congresses.