The archaeology and historical ecology of small scale economies [electronic resource] / Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner.
By: Thompson, Victor D.
Contributor(s): Waggoner, James C | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013Description: xiv, 232 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Environmental archaeology | Human ecology | Indigenous peoples -- Ecology | Indians -- Antiquities | Hunting and gathering societiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 930.1 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Whispers on the landscape / Victor D. Thompson -- Part I. Case studies: 2. Human impacts on oyster resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark / Nicky Milner -- 3. Hunter-gatherers, endemic island mammals, and the historical ecology of California's Channel Islands / Torben C. Rick -- 4. Climate change, human impacts on the landscape, and subsistence specialization: historical ecology and changes in Jomon hunter-gatherer lifeways / Junko Habu and Mark E. Hall -- 5. Cumulative actions and the historical ecology of islands along the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson, John A. Turck, and Chester B. DePratter -- 6. A historical ecological perspective on early agriculture in the North American Southwest and Northwest Mexico / Patricia A. Gilman, Elizabeth M. Toney, and Nicholas H. Beale -- 7. Monumental shell mounds as persistent places in southern coastal Brazil / Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Paulo DeBlasis, and Maria Dulce Gaspar -- 8. To become a mountain hunter: flexible core values and subsistence hunting among reservation-era Blackfeet / Mar�ia Nieves Zede�no -- Part II: Comments and considerations: 9. Forging collaborations between ecology and historical ecology / Steven C. Pennings -- 10. Observations about the historical ecology of small-scale societies / Tristram R. Kidder -- Epilogue: Contingency in the environments of foraging societies / William Bal�ee.
An examination of the variety of small-scale economies across a variety of geographical and temporal locations, specifically of the degree to which they modified the landscape.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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