Splendid Isolation : The Eruption of the Laacher See Volcano & Southern Scandinavian Late Glacial Hunter-Gatherers Hardback
by Felix Riede
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The year is 12,800 BP. Europe is entirely occupied by people of the so-called Upper Magdalenian culture.
Well, not entirely one small region, southern Scandinavia, differs markedly from its neighbours. These lines open the first book-length treatment of the cultural evolution of late Ice Age forager societies at the northern edge of Europe.
Splendid Isolation summarises more than ten years of research that connects the cataclysmic eruption of the Laacher See volcano in present-day western Germany with contemporary cultural changes.
It also offers an in-depth treatment of the eruptions impact on plants, animals and people as well as its cultural-historical consequences.
Invoking the term splendid isolation, the author argues that despite the eruptions evidently detrimental ecological impacts, it led to a regional cultural effervescence in the form of the Bromme culture.
By charting this past calamity, the book also shows how the study of ancient disasters can be made useful in todays debates of resilience, vulnerability and apocalypse.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:Aarhus University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2017
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- ISBN:9788771241273
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:Aarhus University Press
- Publication Date:31/07/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9788771241273
