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Impact of Tectonic Activity on Ancient Civilizations
Recurrent Shakeups, Tenacity, Resilience, and Change
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2015
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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 (“great ancient civilizations”), 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 “tectonic” and “quiescent” 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.
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1/2015
Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1427-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1428-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
200
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List of Figures, Images, Tables, and Lists No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access Pages 1 - 2
Chapter One: Introduction No access Pages 3 - 8
Chapter Two: Tectonic Footprints in the Ancient Hellenic World No access
Chapter Three: A Volcanic Connection in Iron-Age Italy No access
Chapter Four: Ancient Tectonism in SW Asia, Impact on Judeo-Christian Traditions, and General Considerations on Religious Influences No access
Chapter Five: Filling in the Picture No access
Chapter Six: Quantification of the Spatial Relationship via Probability Analysis No access
Chapter Seven: Transects No access
Chapter Eight: A Tendency toward Stasis in Tectonically Quiescent Ancient Civilizations No access
Chapter Nine: Tectonic Context of Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the Western Hemisphere No access
Chapter Ten: Revelations from Some GAC Subsets No access
Chapter Eleven: Tectonics and Trade Routes in Antiquity No access
Chapter Twelve: Tectonic Environments of Complex Cultures Just before and after the Period of Classical Antiquity No access
Chapter Thirteen: Cultural Roles of Tectonism in the Modern World No access
Chapter Fourteen: Direct Influences of Active Tectonics on Cultural Development in Antiquity No access
Chapter Fifteen: Possible Indirect Links between Ancient Civilizations and Active Tectonism No access
Chapter Sixteen: An Adjunct Direct Factor No access
Chapter Seventeen: Tectonics and Ancient Civilizations No access
