Under Pressure?

This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate change, how they manage stress at a group or personal level, and how they transmit their knowledge about dreadful events and successful responses to later generations. Consequently, this book is primarily for a scientific audience focused on hunter-gatherers but will also provide insights for those interested in human responses to crisis and change.

Focuses on the resilience of hunter-gatherer societies from a personal to a group and traditional level Presents case studies of living with climate change and environmental hazards from the Stone Age to the present day Provides interdisciplinary studies encompassing archaeology, geology, ethnology, history, and/or sociology Is open access book, which means that you have free and unlimited access

Inhalt

Under pressure? Living with climate change and environmental haz ards in the past & now.- Concepts and theoretical debates.- What is a disaster? An overview of (contested) disaster concepts.- Disaster and Resilience: Some observations for living well from the vantagepoint of the social sciences.- Mobility, vulnerability, and resilience. A theoretical framework for studying social response to climate-related hazards and disasters in the past.- Fire without smoke? Ancient hazards and the allure of disaster narra tives in prehistoric archaeology, with reference to the Storegga Tsunami (8150 BP).- Telling Transformative Climate Narratives from Prehistoric Pasts for Future Positive Existence.- Storying experiences with trauma/danger/hazards/disasters - The Storegga tsunami 8200BP as monster.- Stories of societies under pressure.- Living with a Changing Environment: An Ethnographic Account of Indigenous Forest Village Communities' Experience of Floods and Land slides in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India.- Memories of Disaster: Tracing the material and immaterial remains of the 1648 Intagan landslide.- Lower Limb Diaphyseal Morphology Reveals Diverse Mobility Strategies in the Creation and Maintenance of Resilient Landscapes: Coastal Hunter-Gatherers from Japan and Latvia.- Capacity-building and resilience in the face of rising sea levels. Implications from the Baltic Stone Age.- The impact of the Storegga tsunami (ca. 6150 BCE) upon Mesolithic site distribution in Western and Central Norway.- Human impacts of the 8.2 ka event on Mesolithic foragers in western Denmark a model-based approach inspired by 'radical' disaster risk reduction research.- Is too much Resilience a Good or a Bad Thing? Hidden Hazards and
the Long-term Robusticity of Hunting, Gathering and Fishing in the Epi palaeolithic of the Southern Levant.- Resilience, Disaster, Risk and Hazard studies - the benefits of multi disciplinary studies, and future aspirations.