Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape The Mediterranean and Beyond

This book is the result of two interdisciplinary symposia held by a group of volcanologists, engineers, Near Eastern and classical philologists, and Old and New World archaeologists in Naples, Italy and Medford, Massachusetts. Contributors to the 19 chapters in this volume examine the complex problems that arise in volcanic environments and the various ways in which societies respond. These studies cross barriers among the volcanological, geological, antiquarian, and archaeological perspectives in studying such topics as risk assessment, responses in prehistoric and historic times, and representations in ancient literature.Balmuth, Miriam S. is the author of 'Cultural Responses to the Volcanic Landscape The Mediterranean and Beyond' with ISBN 9781931909068 and ISBN 1931909067.