The archaeology and historical ecology of small scale economies /Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextOriginal language: English Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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  • CC81 .A734 2013
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Contents:
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 / María Nieves Zedeño -- 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 Balée.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies 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 / María Nieves Zedeño -- 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 Balée.

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.

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