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  • Surviving Sudden Environmental Change

    Answers From Archaeology

    Edited by Jago Cooper, Payson Sheets ...
    Archaeologists have long encountered evidence of natural disasters through excavation and stratigraphy. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change, case studies examine how eight different past human communities-ranging from Arctic to equatorial regi ... Read more

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  • Before the Volcano Erupted

    The Ancient Cerén Village in Central America

    Edited by Payson D. Sheets ...
    On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Cerén village in the Zapotitán Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica

    Edited by Payson D. Sheets, Brian R. McKee ...
    How humans adapt to life in an area prone to natural disasters is an intriguing study for the social sciences. In this volume, experts from several disciplines explore the adaptation process of prehistoric societies in the volcanic Arenal region of Costa Rica from about 2000 BC to the Spanish Conquest at about AD 1500.The data in this volume come from a survey of the region conducted with the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Archeology and Volcanism in Central America

    The Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador

    Edited by Payson D. Sheets ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Scientists have long speculated on the impact of extreme natural catastrophes on human societies. Archeology and Volcanism in Central America provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.During the past 2,000 years, four volcanic eruptions have taken place in the Zapotitán Valley of southern El Salvador. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Going Forward by Looking Back

    Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse

    Edited by Felix Riede, Payson Sheets ...
    Series Book 3 - Catastrophes in Context
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Ancient Mesoamerican Warfare

    by James M. Ambrosino, Traci Ardren, George Bey, M Kathryn Brown, Arlen Chase, Diane Z. Chase, David Freidel, James F. Garber, Charles Golden, Annabeth Headrick, Arthur Joyce, Steven LeBlanc, Barbara MacLeod, Geoffrey McCafferty, Shirley Mock, Jonathon Pagliaro, F Kent Reilly, Payson Sheets, Charles Suhler ...
    The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years. In this volume, the authors use recent empirical studies to help us understand the patterns and nature of Mesoamerican warfare. Using evidence from ceramics, settlement pattern, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnography, these projects define the martial nature of Mesoamerican societies and link it to ritual, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Ancient Maya Commerce

    Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil

    Edited by Scott R. Hutson ...
    Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of ... Read more

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  • Prehistory of South America

    Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent

    by Jerry D. Moore ...
    A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology.For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC - AD 1500)

    Edited by Basil Reid ...
    Comprising 17 chapters and with a wide geographic reach stretching from the Florida Keys in the north to the Guianas in the south, this volume places a well-needed academic spotlight on what is generally considered an integral topic in Caribbean and circum-Caribbean archaeology.The book explores a variety of issues, including the introduction and dispersal of early cultivars, plant manipulation, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions

    Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past

    Edited by Daniel Contreras ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking to evidence from the human past to shed light on the processes which link environmental and cultural ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Nukak

    Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People

    by Gustavo Politis ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is groundbreaking and urgent, both because of encroaching guerrilla violence that makes Nukak existence perilously fragile, and because his work with the Nukak represented one of the last opportunities to conduct research ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

    by Izumi Shimada ...
    Pampa Grande, the largest and most powerful city of the Mochica (Moche) culture on the north coast of Peru, was built, inhabited, and abandoned during the period A.D. 550-700. It is extremely important archaeologically as one of the few pre-Hispanic cities in South America for which there are enough reliable data to reconstruct a model of pre-Hispanic urbanism.This book presents a "biography" of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD