This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate change, how they manage stress at a group or personal level, and how they transmit their knowledge about dreadful events and successful responses to later generations. Consequently, this book is primarily for a scientific audience focused on hunter-gatherers but will also provide insights for those interested in human responses to crisis and change.
Under pressure? Living with climate change and environmental haz ards in the past & now.- Concepts and theoretical debates.- What is a disaster? An overview of (contested) disaster concepts.- Disaster and Resilience: Some observations for living well from the vantagepoint of the social sciences.- Mobility, vulnerability, and resilience. A theoretical framework for studying social response to climate-related hazards and disasters in the past.- Fire without smoke? Ancient hazards and the allure of disaster narra tives in prehistoric archaeology, with reference to the Storegga Tsunami (8150 BP).- Telling Transformative Climate Narratives from Prehistoric Pasts for Future Positive Existence.- Storying experiences with trauma/danger/hazards/disasters - The Storegga tsunami 8200BP as monster.- Stories of societies under pressure.- Living with a Changing Environment: An Ethnographic Account of Indigenous Forest Village Communities' Experience of Floods and Land slides in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, India.- Memories of Disaster: Tracing the material and immaterial remains of the 1648 Intagan landslide.- Lower Limb Diaphyseal Morphology Reveals Diverse Mobility Strategies in the Creation and Maintenance of Resilient Landscapes: Coastal Hunter-Gatherers from Japan and Latvia.- Capacity-building and resilience in the face of rising sea levels. Implications from the Baltic Stone Age.- The impact of the Storegga tsunami (ca. 6150 BCE) upon Mesolithic site distribution in Western and Central Norway.- Human impacts of the 8.2 ka event on Mesolithic foragers in western Denmark a model-based approach inspired by radical disaster risk reduction research.- Is too much Resilience a Good or a Bad Thing? Hidden Hazards and
the Long-term Robusticity of Hunting, Gathering and Fishing in the Epi palaeolithic of the Southern Levant.- Resilience, Disaster, Risk and Hazard studies - the benefits of multi disciplinary studies, and future aspirations.
