The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of climate and environmental change / edited by Gwen Robbins Schug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schug, Gwen Robbins, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Effect of climate on.

Human beings.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Paleoclimatology.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Handbook of the bioarchaeology of climate and environmental change

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, migration, and interpersonal violence. Bioarchaeology-the study of archaeological human skeletons-provides direct evidence of the human experience of past climate and environmental changes and serves an important complement to paleoclimate, historical, and archaeological approaches to changes we may expect with global warming. Comprising 27 chapters from experts across a broad range of time periods and geographical regions, this book addresses hypotheses about how climate and environmental changes impact human health and well-being, factors that promote resilience, and circumstances that make migration or interpersonal violence a more likely outcome. The volume highlights the potential relevance of bioarchaeological analysis to contemporary challenges by organizing the chapters into a framework outlined by the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Planning for a warmer world requires knowledge about humans as biological organisms with a deep connection to Earth's ecosystems balanced by an appreciation of how historical and socio-cultural circumstances, socio-economic inequality, degrees of urbanization, community mobility, and social institutions play a role in shaping long-term outcomes for human communities. Containing a wealth of nuanced perspectives about human-environmental relations, the handbook is key reading for students of environmental archaeology, bioarchaeology, and the history of disease. By providing a longer view of contemporary challenges, it may also interest readers in public health, public policy, and planning"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A bioarchaeology of climate and environmental change / Gwen Robbins Schug

Exploring the third epidemiological transition : palaeopathology's contribution to understanding health and well-being today and for the future / Charlotte A. Roberts

Disease in the context of environmental change / Molly K. Zuckerman & Ashley C. Dafoe

Living on the edge : climate-induced micronutrient famines in the ancient Atacama Desert? / Annie Marie E. Snoddy, Charlotte L. King, Siân E. Halcrow, Andrew R. Millard, Hallie R. Buckley, Vivien G. Standen & Bernardo T. Arriaza

Climate change and adaptive systems in Bronze Age Gansu, China / Elizabeth Berger & Hui Wang

Resources, stress, and response in Viking Age Iceland / Guðný Zoëga & Kimmarie A. Murphy

Respiratory disease in the Middle Nile Valley : the impact of environment and aridification / Anna M. Davies-Barrett, Daniel Antoine & Charlotte A. Roberts

Health and disease at the marshes : deciphering human-environmental interactions at Roman Aventicum, Switzerland (1st-3rd century AD) / Chryssa Bourbou

A bioarchaeology of social inequality and environmental change / Kenneth C. Nystrom & Gwen Robbins Schug

Urban environments : demography, epidemiology, and the role of climate change in determining health outcomes / Sharon N. DeWitte

Social variation in an urban environment and its impacts on stress : preliminary results from ancient Greek Himera (Sicily) / Britney Kyle & Laurie Reitsema

Biocultural aspects of culture contact, exchange, and population movements in Cyprus / Anna J. Osterholtz

Resilience and change : a biocultural view of a Bedouin population in the emerging modern Middle East / Megan A. Perry & Emily Edwards

A bioarchaeology of madness : modernity, pellagra, and the rise of the manicomio system in the Veneto region of Italy / Megan Miller, Gwen Robbins Schug, Luca Pagani & Nicola Carrara

Making sense of violence and environmental change in Europe / Rebecca Redfern

The climate change-witch execution connection : living with environmental uncertainty on the Colorado Plateau (AD 800-1350) / Debra L. Martin & Ryan P. Harrod

Biological and cultural adaptations to climate change in prehistoric central California / Marin A. Pilloud, Al W. Schwitalla & Kristen A. Broehl

Environmental, behavioral, and bodily change : violence in the late intermediate period (AD 1000-1450), North Chile / Christina Torres-Rouff

A diachronic view of violent relations and environmental change in the Titicaca Basin, Bolivia / Sara L. Juengst

Violence and climate change in the Jōmon period, Japan / Hisashi Nakao, Tomomi Nakagawa, Kohei Tamura, Yuji Yamaguchi, Naoko Matsumoto & Takehiko Matsugi

Slouching toward the Neolithic : complexity, simplification, and resilience in the Japanese archipelago / Mark James Hudson

A bioarchaeological perspective on trauma incidence in high altitude environments, Nepal / Jacqueline T. Eng & Mark Aldenderfer

Climate and activity in Middle Holocene Siberia / Angela R. Lieverse

Aridity and adaptation among Arabian Bronze Age communities : investigating mobility and climate change using isotope analysis / Lesley A. Gregoricka

Stable carbon and oxygen isotope evidence for late third millennium BCE environmental and social change at Titriş Höyük, an Early Bronze Age urban center in the Lower Turkish Euphrates watershed / Adam W. Schneider, Andrew Somerville, O. Dilek Erdal, Yilmaz S. Erdal & Guillermo Algaze

Environmental dynamics and stable isotopic signatures in early Inner Asian Steppe communities / Michelle Hrivnyak & Jacqueline T. Eng

Human-animal entanglement and climate change : multi-species approaches in remote Oceania / Judith Littleton, Gina McFarlane & Melinda S. Allen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: The Routledge handbook of the bioarchaeology of climate and environmental change

ISBN:

9781351030465

1351030469

OCLC:

1156414921

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