The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change

ISBN-13: 9780367560386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 552 str.

Gwen Robbins Schug

Opis

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, migration, and interpersonal violence. Bioarchaeology provides direct evidence of the human experience of past climate and environmental changes.

Spis treści

1. A Bioarchaeology of Climate and Environmental Change  Part I: Good Health and Well-Being  2. Exploring the Third Epidemiological Transition: Palaeopathology's contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future  3. Disease in the Context of Environmental Change  4. Living on the edge: Climate-induced micronutrient famines in the ancient Atacama Desert?  5. Climate change and adaptive systems in Bronze Age Gansu, China  6. Resources, stress, and response in Viking Age Iceland  7. Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley: The impact of environment and aridification  8. Health and disease at the marshes: Deciphering human-environmental interactions at Roman Aventicum, Switzerland (1st-3rd century AD)  9. A bioarchaeology of social inequality and environmental change  10. Urban environments: Demography, epidemiology, and the role of climate change in determining health outcomes  11. Social variation in an urban environment and its impacts on stress: Preliminary results from ancient Greek Himera (Sicily)  12. Biocultural aspects of culture contact, exchange, and population movements in Cyprus  13. Resilience and change: A biocultural view of a Bedouin population in the emerging modern Middle East  14. A bioarchaeology of madness: Modernity, pellagra, and the rise of the manicomio system in the Veneto Region of Italy  Part III: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions  15. Making sense of violence and environmental change in Europe  16. The climate change-witch execution connection: Living with environmental uncertainty on the Colorado Plateau (AD 800–1350)  17. Biological and cultural adaptations to climate change in prehistoric central California  18. Environmental, behavioral, and bodily change: Violence in the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1450), North Chile  19. A diachronic view of violent relations and environmental change in the Titicaca Basin, Bolivia  20. Violence and climate change in the Jōmon period, Japan  Part IV: Life on Land  21. Slouching toward the Neolithic: Complexity, simplification, and resilience in the Japanese Archipelago  22. A bioarchaeological perspective on trauma incidence in high altitude environments, Nepal  23. Climate and activity in Middle Holocene Siberia  24. Aridity and adaptation among Arabian Bronze Age communities: Investigating mobility and climate change using isotope analysis  25. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope evidence for late third millennium BCE environmental and social change at Titriş Höyük, an Early Bronze Age urban center in the Lower Turkish Euphrates watershed  26. Environmental dynamics and stable isotopic signatures in early Inner Asian Steppe communities  27. Human-animal entanglement and climate change: Multi-species approaches in Remote Oceania

O autorze

Gwen Robbins Schug is Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, USA.