EAN: 9781461492382

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN ANTHROPOLOGY BIOARCHAEOLOGY...

The goal of this monograph is to emphasize with empirical data the complexity of the
relationship between climate change and violence. Bioarchaeology is the integration of human
skeletal remains from ancient societies with the cultural and environmental context.
Information on mortality  disease  diet and other factors provide important data to examine
long chronologies of human existence  particularly during periods of droughts and
life-threatening climate changes. Case studies are used to reconstruct the responses and short
and long-term adaptations made by groups before  during and after dramatic changes in weather
and climate. Interpersonal and group violence is also analyzed. The authors find that while in
some cases there is an increase in trauma and violence  in other cases there is not. Human
groups are capable of avoiding violent altercations and increasing broad networks of
cooperation that help to mitigate the effects of climate change. A case study from the U.S.
Southwest is provided that shows the variable and surprising ways that ancient farmers in the
past dealt with long term droughts.

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