Disaster, Survival, Recovery : How did Jōmon communities resettle areas devastated by the 7.3K cal BP Kikai-Akahoya (K-Ah) “Super-Eruption”?
Uchiyama, Junzo ; Kuwahata, Mitsuhiro ; Jordan, Peter LU
and Isaksson, Sven
(2023)
In Antiquity
97(393).
p.557-575
- Abstract
- Archaeologists have traditionally framed the impacts of natural disasters in terms of societal collapse versus cultural resilience. The 7.3ka cal BP Kikai-Akahoya (K-Ah) ‘super-eruption’ in south-western Japan was among the largest volcanic events of the Holocene. Here, the authors deploy a multi-proxy approach to examine how K-Ah devastated Tanegashima Island. While local Jōmon populations were annihilated, surrounding communities survived and eventually returned, adjusting their subsistence base to survive in the damaged environment. The article concludes that neither ‘collapse’ nor ‘resilience’ fully capture the complex dynamics of this process and that more research is needed to understand how disasters shape cultural trajectories.
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- Uchiyama, Junzo
; Kuwahata, Mitsuhiro
; Jordan, Peter
LU
and Isaksson, Sven
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- 2023
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- 393
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- 557 - 575
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- Antiquity
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- ISSN
- 0003-598X
- DOI
- 10.15184/aqy.2023.31
- project
- Living Dangerously: Reconstructing Ancient Disaster-Scapes in Northeast Asia
- CALDERA Nordic-Japan Research Programme (Disaster Studies)
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