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  • 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

    $28.49 USD

  • Going Forward by Looking Back

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

    Edited by Payson Sheets, Felix Riede ...
    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

    Was $40.99 USD Now $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

    $55.89 USD

  • 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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  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    by Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Way the Wind Blows

    Climate Change, History, and Human Action

    Edited by Roderick J. McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, Susan Keech McIntosh ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
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  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities eBook

    Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

    Edited by Professor A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, Professor David W. Brokensha ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Way the Wind Blows

    Climate Change, History, and Human Action

    Edited by Susan Keech McIntosh, Roderick McIntosh, Joseph Tainter ...
    Series series Historical Ecology Series
    Scientists and policymakers are beginning to understand in ever-increasing detail that environmental problems cannot be understood solely through the biophysical sciences. Environmental issues are fundamentally human issues and must be set in the context of social, political, cultural, and economic knowledge. The need both to understand how human beings in the past responded to climatic and other ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Sustainability

    Beyond Development and Progress

    Edited by Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Settlement Patterns and Ecosystem Pressures in the Peruvian Rainforest: Understanding the Impacts of Indigenous Peoples on Biodiversity

    by Rodolfo Tello ...
    To what extent do regional socioeconomic processes influence the level of ecosystem pressure being exerted by indigenous groups? In Manu National Park, one of the most important protected areas of the Peruvian rainforest, increments in the levels of environmental pressure have been associated with an increased disruption of the traditional livelihoods of the indigenous population, created mostly ... Read more

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  • Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas

    A Perspective from Historical Ecology

    Edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Guillaume Odonne ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Historical Ecology
    This book offers a comparative analysis of the experiences, responses, and adaptations of people to climate variability and environmental change across the Americas. It foregrounds historical ecology as a structural framework for understanding the climate change crisis throughout the region and throughout time. In recent years, Indigenous and local populations in particular have experienced ... Read more

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  • Anthropology and Climate Change

    From Encounters to Actions

    Edited by Susan A Crate, Mark Nuttall ...
    The first book to comprehensively assess anthropology’s engagement with climate change, this pioneering volume both maps out exciting trajectories for research and issues a call to action. Chapters in part one are systematic research reviews, covering the relationship between culture and climate from prehistoric times to the present; changing anthropological discourse on climate and environment; ... Read more

    $61.99 USD