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Human cultures were interacting with usual risks because the sunrise of time. This publication explores those interactions intimately and revisits a few recognized catastrophes together with the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. those reports show that varied human cultures had well-developed thoughts which facilitated their reaction to severe normal occasions.
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I will introduce and describe the basic components of a human disaster and provide some examples from Japanese archaeology. More detailed case studies are presented in Chapter 18. One of the important implications of defining the general components of disaster research is that the need for an inter-disciplinary approach is highlighted. 20 S. SHIMOYAMA Studies focused on the natural origin of a disaster and the kinds of damages sustained have traditionally been carried out in the natural sciences in fields such as volcanology, geology and biology.
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