Disaster Archaeology, an upcoming interdisciplinary science, emerges and establishes itself as a uniquely significant part of the fields that deal with environmental studies, hazards, risk management, prevention policies and mitigation plans all over the world. Considering that the functions and the results of disasters, the human response to hazards and the carrying capacity of natural and human ecosystems do vary considerably in space and time, modern scientists can detect the spatial and temporal distribution of hazards.
         This discipline can provide researchers with a huge spectrum of information concerning archaeodisasters. Generally speaking, D.A.: a) defines the identity, the impact and the dynamics of hazards & disasters in relation with the human civilization (biological, ecological, environmental, economic, political, technological, geographical and cultural results), b) tries to find and analyze the kinds, frequency and magnitude of them, being hidden in the "archaeological landscapes", c) searches for the adaptation process in past human societies and the "unfamiliar landscapes" formed after disasters, by reconstructing the natural & cultural landscapes of the past that were used and modified by humans, d) deals with hazard management matters concerning the cultural heritage in modern societies.
        Come with us in this exciting journey that covers both the despair, the irrevocable change and the loss, along with the hope, the renaissance, the creativeness and the victorious adaptation of humans to this beautiful, challenging planet!
       

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Disaster Archaeology has been established as an autonomous scientific field in 2005 by Dr. Amanda Laoupi at CANaH (Centre for the Assessment of Natural Hazards and Proactive Planning) - NTUA and presented at Athens University (Department of Archaeology and History of Art / Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment) and various international meetings in the form of post-graduate seminars and interdisciplinary papers. In the web, Dr. Amanda Laoupi's works on D.A. were firstly presented by professor George Pararas at his 'Disaster Pages', and by the independent researcher Gary David at his 'Orion Zone'

 
 

A PRIMER FOR DISASTER ARCHAEOLOGY

 

MY RESEARCH FIELDS:

• Disaster Archaeology

• Reconstruction of archaeoenvironments
• Landscape & Environmental Archaeology

• Risk Management of Cultural Heritage

• Noetic Archaeology, Disaster Mythology, Archaeomythology, Astromythology, Ethnoastronomy

• Social & Cultural Psychology and Anthropology

• Palaeopathology

• Palaeoecology

• Underwater, Island and Coastal Archaeology

• Environmental Education

• Expert Systems in Archaeological Theory and Practice

• Spatial Technologies & Professional Photography

• Environmental management

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ARCHAEODISASTER NEWS

Lost city 'could rewrite history'. BBC news (January 19, 2002)



Chinese Find Underwater 'Lost City' in Lake; 'An Extensive Series of Structures'. Underwatertimes.com News Service (January 16, 2006)


Japan's Ancient Underwater "Pyramid" Mystifies Scholars. Julian Ryall in Tokyo for National Geographic News (September 19, 2007)


Gene Study Supports Single Main Migration Across Bering Strait. ScienceDaily (November 28, 2007)


Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs. Science Daily (January 4, 2008)


Ancient Mass Sacrifice, Riches Discovered in China Tomb. Kevin Holden Platt in Beijing, China for National Geographic News (January 29, 2008)


Green Sahara. National Geographic Magazine (Septemeber 2008)


New Evidence Provides An Alternative Route 'Out Of Africa' For Early Humans. ScienceDaily (October 15, 2008)


Sumberged wonders of the Wolrd. Amazing Inderwater cities, Ruins and Other Urban Archaeology 7 (November 8, 2008)


Race To Preserve The World’s Oldest Submerged Town: Pavlopetri, Greece. ScienceDaily (May 13, 2009)


Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude. ScienceDaily (October 27, 2009)


Ancient hominids may have been seafarers. Bruce Bower in Scinece News (January 30, 2010; Vol.177 #3, p. 14)


King Tut Felled by Malaria, Bone Disease. Rossella Lorenzi in Discovery News (February 16, 2010)


Primitive Humans Conquered Sea, Surprising Finds Suggest. Heather Pringle for National Geographic Magazine (February 17, 2010)


Asteroid Killed Off the Dinosaurs. ScienceDaily (March 4, 2010)


New ancestor? Scientists ponder DNA from Siberia. Physorgt.com (March 24, 2010)


The Ishango Bone - The World's Greatest Ancient Artefact? Sean Williams in Heritage Key (April 7, 2010)


Brain Parts Found in Ancient Human Ancestor. Jenniffer Viegas in Discovery News (April 12, 2010)


Ancient Hominids Had Human-Like Grip. Discovery News (April 19, 2010)


Asteroid coated with ice suggests ingredients for life came from space. Guardian (April 28, 2010)


Archeologists May Be Closing in on Cleopatra's Tomb. Voice of America News (May 11, 2010)


Charting the Development of Human Populations in the North and South of the Mediterranean Region. ScienceDaily (May 17, 2010)


Descubren tumba de élite más antigua de Mesoamérica. Avalon: Revista Gigital Gratuita (May 20, 2010)


57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Egypt. Associated Press / Physorg.com (May 23, 2010)


Sahara cave may hold clues to dawn of Egypt. Reuters - Africa (May 24, 2010)


Archaeologists: 1200 Flint Stones Dating Back to 250, 000 Years Discovered in Syria. Global Arab Network (May 26, 2010)


The Thunderstone Mystery: What's a Stone Age Axe Doing in an Iron Age Tomb? Science News (June 16, 2010)


Constraining the Reign of Ancient Egypt: Radiocarbon Dating Helps to Nail Down the Chronology of Kings, Researchers Say. Science News (June 18, 2010)


Neanderthal Genome Decoded. Archaeology Magazine (July / August 2010)


Lasers in the Jungle. Archaeology Magazine (July / August 2010)


200 piezas originales de Atapuerca en el nuevo Museo de la Evolución Humana / El Museo de la Evolución Humana acoge los hallazgos de Atapuerca. Avalon - El País/ La Voz de Galicia (July 14, 2010)


Egyptian Desert Expedition Confirms Spectacular Meteorite Impact.  Science Daily (September 27, 2010)




ARCHAEODISASTER BOOKS

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Childress, D.H. Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. Adventures Unlimited Press, 1995.


Childress, D.H. Lost Cities of China, Central Asia and India : A Traveler's Guide. Adventures Unlimited Press, 1987.


Childress, D.H. Lost Cities of North & Central America. Adventures Unlimited Press, 1992.


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Cowan, D.R., Arnold, Chr. & Childress, D.H. (foreword by). Ley Lines and Earth Energies : An Extraordinary Journey into the Earth's Natural Energy System. 2003


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Dincauze, Ferran Dena. Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Cambridge University Press, 2000.


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Firestone, R., West, A. & Warwick-Smith, S. The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture. Bear 7 Co, 2006.


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Hassan, F. (ed.). Droughts, Food and Culture: Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa's Later Prehistory. Kluwer Academic Press, 2002.


Haughton, Br., Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, And Ancient Mysteries. The Career press, 2007.


Hoffman, S. and Oliver - Smith, A. Catastrophe & Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series, 2002.


La Violette, P. Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Apocalypse. Bear 7 Co, 2005.


MacGuire, W.J., Griffiths, D.R., Hancock, P.L. & Stewart, I.S.(eds). The Archaeology of Geological Catastrophes. The Geological Society Special Publications no 171, 2000.


Malkowski, E.F. Before the Pharaohs: Egypt's Mysterious Prehistory. Bear & Co, 2005.


Malkowski, E.F. Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE: The History, Technology, and Philosophy of Civilization X. Bear & Co, 2010.


Manning, St. W. A test of time: the volcano of Thera and the chronology and history of the Aegean and east Mediterranean in the mid second millennium B.C. Oxbow Books, 1999.


Nur, A. With Dawn Burgess. Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God. Princeton University press, 2008.


Oliver - Smith, A. and S. Hoffman. The Angry Earth: Disaster in Anthropological Perspective. Routledge, 1999.


Palmer, Tr. Perilous Planet Earth: Catastrophes and Catastrophism through the Ages. Cambridge University press, 2003.


Peiser, B.J., Palmer, Tr. & Baily, M.E. (eds). Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilizations. Archaeological, geological, astronomical and cultural perspectives. BAR International Series 728, Oxford, 1998.


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Radlof, J.G. The Shattering of the Great Planets Hesperus and Phaethon: and the Ensuing Destructions and Floods on Earth. Transl. by Anne-Marie de Grazia. Metron Publications, 2009.


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ARCHAEODISASTER PAPERS


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Byrne, D. The Archaeology of Disasters. Public History Review 6 (1997), pp. 17 - 29.


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Firestone, R.B. The Case for the Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact Event: Mammoth, Megafauna, and Clovis Extinction, 12,900 Years Ago. Journal of Cosmology, 2009/2, pp. 256-285.


Graham, D.W. & Hintz, E. An Ancient Greek Sighting of Halley's Comet? Journal of Cosmology, 2010, Vol 9, 3030-3036.



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MacKil, Emily. Wandering Cities : Alternatives to Catastrophe in the Greek Polis. AJA 108, (2004), pp. 493 - 516.


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Simmons, A. H. Humans, Island Colonization and Pleistocene Extinctions in the Mediterranean: The View from Akrotiri Aetokremnos, Cyprus. Antiquity 65 (1991), pp. 857-869.


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