Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface | Monica L. Smith
1. Nature as Agent: Mass-Event, Incremental, and Biotic Perspectives | Monica L. Smith
2. Hurricanes as Agents of Cultural Change: Integrating Paleotempestology and the Archaeological Record | Matthew C. Peros, Jago Cooper, and Frank Oliva
3. Navigating the Scarcity and Abundance of Monsoonal Rainfall in South Asia | Kanika Kalra
4. Earthquakes and Agency in the Roman Mediterranean: Resilience and Transformation | Jordan Pickett
5. Fire as an Agentive Force, from Forest to Hearth to Forest Again | Monica L. Smith
6. Pathogens with Power: How Diseases Navigate Human Societies | Sara L. Juengst, Emilie Cobb, Dale L. Hutchinson, Karen Mohr Chávez, Sergio Chávez, and Stanislava Chávez
7. Vegetative Agency and Social Memory in Houselots of the Ancient Maya | Harper Dine, Traci Ardren, and Chelsea Fisher
8. Bird Behavior and Biology: The Agentive Role of Birds in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico | Katelyn J. Bishop
9. Rats, Bats, and Birds: The Role of Non-Human Ecosystem Engineers in Pre-European Polynesian Agriculture | Seth Quintus, Jennifer Huebert, Jillian A. Swift, and Kyungsoo Yoo
10. Animal Agents in the Human Environment | Steven Ammerman
11. Reindeer as a Toggle: Animal Agency in Domestication | Silvia Tomášková
12. The End of the World (Again) | John Robb
Index
Contributors