Abstract
Archaeological research on disasters has increased substantially since Sheets's 1980 review of the topic, and with heightened media coverage and funding for the study of such events, archaeological interest will continue to grow. This paper examines how prehistorians have incorporated disasters into their research since 1980, using the literature on El Niño as an illustrative case, and assesses this work in relation to geographical approaches to disaster as well as concepts that have been developed within the “new ecologies.”
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Buren, M.V. The Archaeology of El Niño Events and Other “Natural” Disasters. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 8, 129–149 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011397001694
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