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  • Human responses to the Ilopango Tierra Blanca Joven eruption: excavations at San Andrés, El Salvador

  • Akira Ichikawa
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 96 / Issue 386 / April 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 September 2021, pp. 372-386
    Print publication:
    April 2022
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  • Human responses to catastrophic natural events form an important research theme in archaeology. Using excavation and radiocarbon data, this article investigates the socio-cultural impact of the mid-first-millennium AD Tierra Blanca Joven eruption at San Andrés, El Salvador. The data, along with an architectural energetic analysis of the Campana structure at San Andrés, indicate that survivors and/or re-settlers made considerable efforts to construct monumental buildings immediately following the eruption, using volcanic tephra as construction material. Such re-building played important religious, social and political roles in human responses to the eruption. The study contributes to discussions about human creativity, adaptation and resilience in the face of abrupt environmental change.