Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations (eBook)

Recurrent Shakeups, Tenacity, Resilience, and Change

Eric R. Force (Autor)

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2015
212 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498514286 (ISBN)

Infos

In many ways, the records of antiquity tell us that active tectonism helped to mold our cultural heritage. Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations draws from various fields such as tectonics (geology), classics, history, archaeology, and anthropology to support this conclusion. Echoes of the ancient relation are still discernible in our modern world.

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Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations: Recurrent Shakeups, Tenacity, Resilience, and Change observes a remarkable spatial correspondence of zones of active tectonism (i.e. plate boundaries in the earth's crust) with the most complex cultures of antiquity ("e;great ancient civilizations"e;), and continues to explore the meaning of this relationship from a number of independent angles. Due to resulting site damage, this distribution is counter-intuitive. Nevertheless, systematic differences between "e;tectonic"e; and "e;quiescent"e; cultures show that tectonic activity corresponded in antiquity with more cultural dynamism. Data of several independent types support direct cultural influence of tectonism, including vignettes of the impact of tectonism in specific ancient cultures. An expectation of change seems to be a feature such tectonic cultures shared, and led to an acceleration of development. These dynamics continue though much obscured in the present day.

Autor

Eric R. Force is adjunct professor at the University of Arizona and a practicing geologist with field research spanning fifteen countries.

Inhalt

Chapter 2 Tectonic Footprints in the Ancient Hellenic WorldPart II: Analysis and Separate Lines of InquiryChapter 10 Revelations from Some GAC SubsetsChapter 11 Tectonics and Trade Route Propagation in AntiquityPart III: Variations with TimeChapter 12 Tectonic Environments of Complex Cultures just before and after the Period of Classical AntiquityChapter 13 Cultural Roles of Tectonism in the Modern WorldPart IV: Possible Forms of a SolutionChapter 14 Direct Influences of Active Tectonics on Cultural Development in Antiquity: A Summary of Five Lines of EvidenceChapter 15 Possible Indirect Links between Ancient Civilizations and Active TectonismChapter 16 An Adjunct Direct Factor: Unusual Springs along Active FaultsChapter 17 Tectonics and Ancient Civilizations: Summary and SurmisesPostscript: Some Implications from the Bare FactsAppendicesReferencesAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 18 Illustrations including: - 12 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: active tectonism • Ancient Cultures • ancient earthquakes • Archaeological Geology • archaeoseismology • cultural transects • geoarchaeology • Neotectonics • tectonic cultures • trade-route propagation
• ISBN-13: 9781498514286 / 9781498514286