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Author:   John Grattan ,  Robin Torrence
Publisher:   Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint:   Left Coast Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781598742688

ISBN 10:   159874268
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1: Beyond Gloom and Doom: The Long-Term Consequences of Volcanic Disasters; 2: The Campanian Ignimbrite Factor: Towards a Reappraisal of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic ‘Transition'; 3: Chaos and Selection in Catastrophic Environments: Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea; 4: People and Volcanoes in the Zapotitan Valley, El Salvador; 5: Paleoindians and Megafaunal Extinction in the Basin of Mexico: The Role of the 10.5 K Upper Toluca Pumice Eruption; 6: Living with the Volcano: The 11 th Century AD Eruption of Sunset Crater; 7: Ecological Roadblocks on a Constrained Landscape: The Cultural Effects of Catastrophic Holocene Volcanism on the Alaska Peninsula, Southwest Alaska; 8: The Long Shadow: Understanding the Influence of the Laki Fissure Eruption on Human Mortality in Europe; 9: Volcanic Oral Traditions in Hazard Assessment and Mitigation; 10: Geomythology, Theodicy, and the Continuing Relevance of Religious Worldviews on Responses to Volcanic Eruptions; 11: Planning for the Future: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reconstructing the Buag Episode of Mt Pinatubo, Philippines; 12: Archaeology of Fire and Glass: Cultural Adoption of Glass Mountain Obsidian; 13: Beyond the Catastrophe: The Volcanic Landscape of Barú, Western Panama

Reviews

...The organizers and editors for Living Under the Shadow are to be commended for taking volcanology into the realm of the World Archeological Congress. The book is an excellent contribution to volcanology and archeology/anthropology. If I had run across this book at a meeting I would have flashed my credit card and taken it home. ... -- Grant Heiken, Bull Volcanol

"""...The organizers and editors for Living Under the Shadow are to be commended for taking volcanology into the realm of the World Archeological Congress. The book is an excellent contribution to volcanology and archeology/anthropology. If I had run across this book at a meeting I would have flashed my credit card and taken it home.""... -- Grant Heiken, Bull Volcanol"

Author Information

John Grattan is a Reader in the Institute of Geology and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Robin Torrence is Principle Research Scientist in the Department of Anthropology, Australian Museum, Sydney.

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