Catastrophe: An Investigation Into the Origins of the Modern World (50 page)

Teotihuacan: An Experiment in Living
by E. Pasztory, University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

The Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations,
edited by N. Yoffe and G. L. Cowgill, The University of Arizona Press, 1988.

Life and Death in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan
by R. Storey, University of Alabama Press, 1992.

The Maya
by M. D. Coe, Thames and Hudson, London, 1987.

Breaking the Maya Code
by M. D. Coe, Thames and Hudson, London, 1992.

Ancient North America. The Archaeology of a Continent
by B. M. Fagan, Thames and Hudson, 1991.

The Incas and Their Ancestors. The Archaeology of Peru
by M. E. Moseley, Thames & Hudson, London, 1992.

The Tiwanaku: Portrait of an Andean Civilization
by A. L. Kolata, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge, USA.

Akapana: Una Piramide en el Centro del Mundo
by L. Manzanilla, UNAM, Mexico, 1992.

Huari Administrative Structure: Prehistoric Monumental Architecture and State Government,
edited by W. H. Isbell and G. F. McEwan, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, 1991.

A L’ombre du Cerro Blanco,
edited by C. Chapdelaine, Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal, 1997.

The Lines of Nasca,
edited by A. Aveni, The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1990.

Lines to the Mountain Gods: Nazca and the Mysteries of Peru
by E. Hadingham, Random House, 1987.

Pathways to the Gods: The Mystery of the Andes Lines
by T. Morrison, Paladin Books, 1980.

A Slice through Time: Dendrochronology and Precision Dating,
by M. G. L. Baillie, Routledge, London, 1995.

Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets
by M. G. L. Baillie, Batsford, London, 1999.

The Year Without a Summer: World Climate in 1816,
edited by C. R. Harrington, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, 1992.

Krakatau 1883: The Volcanic Eruption and Its Effects
by T. Simkin and R. Fiske, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1983.

Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem
by I. Thornton, Harvard University Press, 1996.

Volcanoes of the World,
second edition, by T. Simkin and L. Siebert, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1994.

Science-based Dating in Archaeology
by M. J. Aitken, Longman, London, 1990.

Acanceh, Teotihuacano influence in

Acapana temple

Africa.
See
East Africa; North Africa

Agila, Visigothic King

Agricultural failure

in Arabia

in China

in Ireland

in Korea

and plague

in Teotihuacan

Agriculture

and defensive enclosures

irrigation

raised-field system

terracing

See also
Agricultural failure

Ajnadayn, Battle of

Al-Bakri

Alexander the Great

Alexandria, bubonic plague in

Alp Arslan

Al-Tabari

Altun Ha, Teotihuacano influence in

Americas.
See
Mesoamerica; North

America; South America

Amr (great-grandfather of

Muhammad)

Anagui

Anasazi

Anastasius (patriarch)

Ancestor worship

Ancheng revolt

Andean region.
See
Huari empire;

Moche; Nasca culture;

Tiwanaku empire

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Anglo-Saxons, expansion of

Animal Skull, King of Tikal

Annals of Ulster

Annals of the Western Wei, The

Antioch

Jewish revolt in

Persian capture of

revolt against Rome

Antiochus Strategus

Anti-Semitism

in France

Roman

in Spain

Arab caliphate, and Turkic

slave-soldiers

Arabian peninsula

bubonic plague in

invasion of Roman Empire

and Islamic ideology

Marib Dam collapse

Archaeological evidence

Arianism

Arthurian romances, Waste Land

stories in

Arthur, King

death of

Arvicanthus

Asbadus

Ascalon, Islamic capture of

Ashina family

Ashkenazi Jews, and Khazars

Asteroid impact explanation of

climatic disaster

Athanagild

Aurelius

Avars

conquest by Turks

drought’s impact on

invasion of Balkans

migration to west

protection-money payments to

Aztecs

Baian,
kagan
of Avar

Baillie, Mike

Baiounetes

Balaain (Balain)

Bantu

Becan, Teotihuacano influence in

Beikthano, Kingdom of

Bei shi

Bela Vezha.
See
Kiev

Belegezites

Bernicians

Berzetes

Black Death

Bohemia

in Avar empire

Slav invasion of

Book of Ancient Kings, The
(
Pustaka

Raja Purwa
)

Book of Zerubabel

Bretwalda

Briffa, Keith

Britain

Anglo-Saxon/Celtic partition of

Anglo-Saxon expansion in

bubonic plague in

climatic disaster in

famine in

tree-ring evidence in

Waste Land accounts in

Bubonic plague

in Britain

and climatic change

corpse disposal during

and depopulation

East African origins of

economic impact of

in France

in Ireland

outbreaks of

and pilgrimage

in present-day

in Roman Empire

in Spain

symptoms of

transmission of

in Yemen

Buddhism

in Japan

in Korea

Left Way

Bukhara, Turkic capture of

Bulan, King of Khazars

Bumin (
kagan
of Turks)

Burma, genesis in volcanic eruption of

Cadbury (Britain), plague entry at

Caesarea, Islamic capture of

Cahuachi

Calakmul

Cambodia, genesis in volcanic

eruption of

Campanian/Campi Flegrei

complex

Cappadocia, Persian capture of

Caracol

Carthage

Cassiodorus Senator

Catholicism

and anti-Semitism

vs
Arianism

Suevian conversion to

See also
Christianity

Catterick, Battle of

Cattle, drought survival ability of

Central America.
See
Mesoamerica

Chaghri, Sultan

Chenla, Kingdom of

Chen Shubao, Emperor of China

Chepstow-Lusty, A.

Childebert, King of Paris

Chile

climatic disaster in

tree-ring evidence in

China

bubonic plague in

civil war in

climatic disaster in

drought in

famine in

influence on Japan

unification of

Chosroes II

Chrétien de Troyes

Christianity

apocalyptic traditions of

in Arabia

Arianism

and fall of Jerusalem

and false prophets

in Ireland

monophysite heresy

pilgrimage concept in

See also
Catholicism

Chun (Britain)

Climate change, current

Climatic disaster of

archaeological evidence of

asteroid impact explanation for

and Avar invasion of Europe

in Britain

in China

comet impact explanation for

contemporary accounts of

dimming of sun in

and Frankish succession

and human sacrifice

ice-core evidence of

in Japan

in Korea

and Marib Dam collapse

and Mecca famine

in Mesoamerica

in North America

and plague genesis

and Roman disintegration

and Slav invasion of Europe

in South America

tree-ring evidence of

and Turkic conquest of Mongolia

volcanic eruption explanation for.
See
Volcanic eruption of

worldwide impact of

See also
Drought; Floods

Climatic disasters

current

of 1876-1878

of future