Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations, Figures, and Tables vii
4. Introduction. Framing Catastrophes Archaeologically 1
5. Section I. Fire
6. Introduction 15
7. Chapter 1. Do Deep-Time Disasters Hold Lessons for Contemporary Understandings of Resilience and Vulnerability? The Case of the Laacher See Volcanic Eruption 19
8. Chapter 2. Risky Business and the Future of the Past: Nuclear Power in the Ring of Fire 54
9. Chapter 3. Do Disasters Always Enhance Inequality? 78
10. Chapter 4. Political Participation and Social Resilience to the 536/540 CE Atmospheric Catastrophe 108
11. Chapter 5. Collapse, Resilience, and Adaptation: An Archaeological Perspective on Continuity and Change in Hazardous Environments 134
12. Chapter 6. Continuity in the Face of a Slowly Unfolding Catastrophe: The Persistence of Icelandic Settlement Despite Large-Scale Soil Erosion 162
13. Chapter 7. Coping through Connectedness: A Network-Based Modeling Approach Using Radiocarbon Data from the Kuril Islands of Northeast Asia 200
14. Section II. Water
15. Introduction 225
16. Chapter 8. The Materiality of Heritage Post-disaster: Negotiating Urban Politics, People, and Place through Collaborative Archaeology 229
17. Chapter 9. Mound-Building and the Politics of Disaster Debris 256
18. Chapter 10. Catastrophe and Collapse in the Late Pre-Hispanic Andes: Responding for Half a Millennium to Political Fragmentation and Climate Stress 273
19. Chapter 11. Beyond One-Shot Hypotheses: Explaining Three Increasingly Large Collapses in the Northern Pueblo Southwest 304
20. Chapter 12. Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and Modern Southwest Germany 333
21. Chapter 13. El Niño as Catastrophe on the Peruvian Coast 367
22. Chapter 14. A Slow Catastrophe: Anthropocene Futures and Cape Town’s “Day Zero” 397
23. Conclusion. Rewriting the Disaster Narrative, an Archaeological Imagination 425
24. Index 434