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"A stimulating volume for readers interested in lost cultures or climate change's role in the
past and present." - Library Journal
This volume explores the span of human history - and plenty of prehistory - searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof.
The accelerating threat of climate change challenges us to analyze our own communities' relationships with the wider world and to contemplate their very existence. This single-volume cultural encyclopedia examines lost cities and civilizations from every region of the globe and dated throughout human history. Arranged alphabetically, the compilation allows both students and general readers easy access to detailed entries on specific lost cities and civilizations.
Throughout the geographically and chronologically diverse entries, such themes as colonization, migration, and especially climate change are developed and analyzed. Supplementing the main entries are sidebars detailing mythological cities and Investigative Boxes examining present-day cities on the brink of extinction. These round out the book's focus on disappearing cultural centers and reveal the robust relevance this material has to a world facing the crisis of climate change.
Contents
Geographic Guide to Entries
Preface
Introduction
Maps
Lost Cities and Civilizations
Abu Simbel
Abydos
Ai-Khanoum
Ajanta Caves
Aksum
Alexandria
Amarna
Ancestral Puebloans
Angkor
Antioch
Anuradhapura
Assyrians
Athens
Ayutthaya
Baalbek
Babylon
Bagan/Pagan
Borobudor
Cahokia
Carthage
Chan Chan
Chang'an
Chavín de Huántar
Constantinople
Ctesiphon
Cyrene
Deir el-Bahri/Djeser-Djeseru
Delphi
Easter Island
Ephesus
Giza
Granada
Great Zimbabwe
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro
Hittites
Ife
Indigenous Australian Cultures
Iroquois Confederacy
Jerusalem
Kilwa
Knossos
Kyoto
La Tène Celtic Culture
Lapita People
Machu Picchu
Madurai
Maya
Memphis and Saqqara
Meroë
Moche Culture
Mongol Empire
Monte Albán
Mughal Empire
Mycenae
Nazca
Old Goa
Olmecs
Olympia
Paestum
Pataliputra
Pecos Pueblo
Pergamon
Persepolis
Petra
Phoenicians
Pompeii
Roanoke Colony
Rome
Scythians
Shaker villages
Spanish Missions in North America
Stonehenge
Susa
Syracuse
Taxila
Tenochtitlán
Teotihuacán
Thebes
Timbuktu
Tiwanaku
Troy
Tula
Ur
Van
Vijayanagara
Vinland
Xianyang
Bibliography
About the Authors and Contributors
Index
