Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape : The Mediterranean and Beyond

by: Balmuth, M.S. Chester, D.K. Johnston, P.A.

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Cultural responses to the volcanic landscape : the Mediterranean and beyond
Authors:Miriam S. Balmuth, David K. Chester, Patricia A. Johnston

This book is the result of two interdisciplinary symposia held by a group of volcanologists, engineers, Near Eastern and Classical philologists, and Old and New World archaeologists, in Naples, Italy and Medford, Massachusetts. Contributors to the nineteen chapters examine the complex problems that can arise in volcanic environments and the various ways in which societies respond. These studies cross barriers among the volcanological, geological, antiquarian, and archaeological perspectives in studying such topics as risk assessment, responses in prehistoric and historic times, and representations in ancient literature.

Contents:
Introduction
pt. I. Volcanology, risk assessment, and emergency planning. Developments in volcanology during the past 30 years / David K. Chester, Angus M. Duncan ; Understanding Vesuvius and preparing for its next eruption / Roberto Santecroce [and others] ; Eruptive activity of Etna before A.D. 1600, with particular reference to the Classical Period / Angus M. Duncan, David K. Chester, John E. Guest ; The Campi Flegrei nested caldera (Italy) : a restless, resurgent structure in a densely populated area / Giovanni Orsi [and others]
pt. II. Responses in historic and prehistoric times. Responses to eruptions of Etna from the Classical Period to 1900 / David K. Chester, Angus M. Duncan, John E. Guest ; Cultural responses to risk and disaster : an example from the slopes of the Popocatépetl Volcano in Central Mexico / Patricia Plunket, Gabriela Uruñuela ; The prehistoric settlement near the Salinelle di San Marco (Paternò, Catania Province, Sicily) / Laura Maniscalco ; Appendix I. Preliminary report on the chipped stone tools from Salinelle di San Marco / Fabrizio Nicoletti ; Appendix II. Anthropological and paleopathological analysis of human skeletal remains from San Marco (Paternò, Sicily) / Maurizio Di Rosa ; The Island of Vivara : an international port of trade of the middle of the second millennium B.C. in a volcanic landscape / Claudio Giardino, Carla Pepe ; Local volcanic building stones used in the construction of ancient Rome / Donatella De Rita, Ciriaco Giampaolo ; Pozzolana : the contribution of the volcanic landscape to the creation of a new architectural aesthetic / Miriam S. Balmuth ; Landscape evolution and the first human settlements in Sardinia / Sergio Ginesu, Stefania Sias ; Ignimbrites, rock-hewn churches and underground settlement in Cappadocia (Turkey) / Ezio Burri, Raniero Massoli-Novelli, Marco Petitta ; Pyroclastic temper in Apulian Bronze Age pottery : the far-reaching impact of a Vesuvian eruption / Sara Levi [and others] ; The A.D. 79 eruption : seismic activity and effects of the eruption on Pompeii / Aldo Marturano, Antonio Varone ; The introduction of applied sciences in the study of an ancient site : Pompeii / Baldassare Conticello ; Water use in Pompeii between the earthquake and the eruption / Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
pt. III. Responses in ancient literature. Volcanic echoes in ancient Near Eastern texts / Karen Polinger Foster ; Volcanoes in Classical mythology / Patricia A. Johnston ; Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in Latin Literature : reflections and emotional responses / Johannes Jacobius Luis Smolenaars
Conclusion

Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape : The Mediterranean and Beyond

by: Balmuth, M.S. Chester, D.K. Johnston, P.A.

• ISBN-13: 9781931909068 / 978-1-931909-06-8
• ISBN-03: 1931909067 / 1-931909-06-7
• Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, 2005

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