Hi Dan
Perhaps the most obvious thing that springs to mind immediately is the
supply of water. Water power in industrial installations was constantly
subject to fluctuations in supply, and a drought could have catastrophic
consequences for manufacture and production. Various ways round this
were devised at different places and in different times. A severe
drought could also cause problems in the food chain, again with
catastrophic results.
No references spring to mind straight away, but will have a think and
get back to you.
Paul
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> Subject: running out
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> A colleague in Contemporary History, who is working on
> catastrophes after the sudden lack of a resource (he's
> thinking mainly of oil), has asked me for examples of similar
> sudden lacks/running out of essential resources that may have
> been studied by historical archaeologists. I was hard pushed
> to think of anything much, although this would seem to be the
> kind of thing that we should have thought about as a
> discipline -- does anyone have suggestions of published
> studies on this general theme from the archaeology of the
> modern period?
>
> Dan
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