Scholars say the tsunamis and dense clouds of volcanic ash from the eruption had cultural repercussions that rippled across the Eastern Mediterranean for decades, even centuries.
It said UK banks did not address cultural change until the eruption of the Libor scandal in 2012, having failed to act after the emergence of mis-selling debacles such as the payment protection insurance scandal.
Fedele, F., Giaccio, B. & Isaia, R. In Living Under the Shadow: The Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions (eds. Grattan, J. & Torrence, R.) 19 41 (Left Coast Press, 2007).
Such a strategy is used to explore the stratigraphic and chronological relationship between the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption and the cultural changes that occurred during the MUP Transition in Southern Europe.
Such associations bubble just below the surface, inhibited by cultural restraints but susceptible to eruption under extreme inebriation or duress.
During an excavation in 2004, a team of archaeologists discovered cultural remains buried by the 1815 eruption.
Like the still-active Holuhraun volcano -- the 4th Icelandic volcano to erupt in the last four years, its poisonous gases stemming the tourons that, as the 2013 documentary Ash illuminated, callously streamed in to viddy the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption -- this continental divide can induce cultural stress points as well.
In addition, volcanic eruptions are regularly considered as prime movers or contributing agents in cultural changes documented in the archaeological record (see, for instance, [45, 69 72]).
Furthermore, the occurrence of tephra from the same eruption across sites, regions and in various types of depositional contexts (ice-cores, terrestrial, marine, cultural) holds the potential of linking and thus elucidating the tempi and causes of both environmental and cultural change.
This is what happened in the eruption of Vesuvius which buried Pompeii.Last week there was some talk in Indonesia of the local city Yogyakarta, the cultural centre of the main island of Java, suffering a similar fate.
