Crisis to collapse : the archaeology of social breakdown / edited by Tim Cunningham & Jan Driessen.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cunningham, Tim F., editor.

Driessen, Jan, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Crisis to Collapse: the Archaeology of Social Breakdown (Workshop) (2015 : Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Series:

Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium) ; 11.

Aegis (Series) (Louvain, Belgium). Actes de colloques

Aegis ; 11. Actes de colloques

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology--Congresses.

Social archaeology.

Regression (Civilization)--Congresses.

Regression (Civilization).

Civilization--History--Congresses.

Civilization.

Archaeology--Congresses.

Archaeology.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

314 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), charts ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Louvain-la-Neuve : UCL, Presses universitaires de Louvain, [2017]

Summary:

This volume comprises the proceedings of a workshop with the same title which took place in October 2015. It was organised within the frame of the ARC13/18-049 (concerted research action) 'A World in Crisis?'. It has both a large chronological scope - from the Late Palaeolithic to the 12th c. AD - and wide geographical coverage, with case studies from the Maya, Southern US, Aegean, Sri Lanka, Indus, Gaul, Southern Levant, Anatolia, Egypt, North-western Europe, Alaska and Mesopotamia. It discusses and critically analyses the variety of signatures and archaeological correlates of crisis conditions that led to social breakdown. As such it makes massive strides forward to a better theoretical understanding of crisis-induced collapse.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782875585264

2875585266

OCLC:

974977119