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Introduction: Framing Catastrophes Archaeologically
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Chapter 1. Do Deep-Time Disasters Hold Lessons for Contemporary Understandings of Resilience and Vulnerability?: The Case of the Laacher See Volcanic Eruption
Felix Riede and Rowan Jackson
Section Introduction - Fire
Chapter 2. Risky Business and the Future of the Past: Nuclear Power in the Ring of Fire
Karen Holmberg
Chapter 3. Do Disasters Always Enhance Inequality?
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Chapter 4. Political Participation and Social Resilience to the A.D. 536/540 Atmospheric Catastrophe
Peter Neal Peregrine
Chapter 5. Collapse, Resilience, and Adaptation: An Archaeological Perspective on Continuity and Change in Hazardous Environments
Robin Torrence
Chapter 6. Continuity in the Face of a Slowly Unfolding Catastrophe: The Persistence of Icelandic Settlement Despite Large-Scale Soil Erosion
Andrew Dugmore, Rowan Jackson, David Cooper, Anthony Newton, Arni Daniel Juliusson, Richard Streeter, Stefani Crabtree, George Hambrecht, Megan Hicks, and Tom McGovern
Chapter 7.
Coping through Connectedness: A Network-based Modeling Approach Using Radiocarbon Data from the Kuril Islands of Northeast Asia
Erik Gjesfjeld and William A. Brown
Chapter 8. Collateral Damage? The Santorini Eruption and the Collapse of Minoan Civilization
Jan Driessen and Simon Jusseret
Section Introduction - Water
Chapter 9. The Materiality of Heritage Post-Disaster: Negotiating Urban Politics, People, and Place through Collaborative Archaeology
Kelly M Britt
Chapter 10. Mound-Building and the Politics of Disaster Debris
Shannon Lee Dawdy
Chapter 11. Catastrophe And Collapse in the Late Pre-Hispanic Andes: Responding for Half a Millennium to Political Fragmentation And Climate Stress
Nicola Sharratt
Chapter 12. Beyond One-Shot Hypotheses: Explaining Three Increasingly Large Collapses in the Northern Pueblo Southwest
Timothy A. Kohler, Laura J. Ellyson, and R. Kyle Bocinsky
Chapter 13. Inherent Collapse? Social Dynamics and External Forcing in Early Neolithic and modern SW Germany
Detlef Gronenborn, Hans-Christoph Strien, Kai Wirtz, Peter Turchin, Christoph Zielhofer, and Rolf van Dick
Chapter 14. El Nino as Catastrophe on the Peruvian Coast
Daniel H. Sandweiss and Kirk A. Maasch
Chapter 15. A Slow Catastrophe: Anthropocene Futures and Cape Town's "Day Zero"
Nick Shepherd
Conclusion
Mark Schuller
Index
