Dear Dan, Sounds like the kind of thing I'm working on. My research area is
the new concept (which I'm pioneering) of 'Occupation Archaeology', ie the
archaeology of military occupation (I'm looking at case studies in WWII).
One of the features of the materiality of occupation is the artefacts
created to cope with the lack of raw materials, fuel and food. The running
out here was more gradual than sudden, but there were sudden elements;
after all, when gas and electricity ran out, people had to make do
suddenly. Feel free to email this email to your colleague if s/he wants to
get in touch. Best wishes, Gilly Carr
Dr Gilly Carr
Lecturer in Archaeology
Cambridge University
On Jan 14 2009, dan Hicks wrote:
> 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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