The archaeology and historical ecology of small scale economies /Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Whispers on the landscape / Part I. Case studies: 2. Human impacts on oyster resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark / 3. Hunter-gatherers, endemic island mammals, and the historical ecology of California's Channel Islands / 4. Climate change, human impacts on the landscape, and subsistence specialization: historical ecology and changes in Jomon hunter-gatherer lifeways / 5. Cumulative actions and the historical ecology of islands along the Georgia coast / 6. A historical ecological perspective on early agriculture in the North American Southwest and Northwest Mexico / 7. Monumental shell mounds as persistent places in southern coastal Brazil / 8. To become a mountain hunter: flexible core values and subsistence hunting among reservation-era Blackfeet / Part II: Comments and considerations: 9. Forging collaborations between ecology and historical ecology / 10. Observations about the historical ecology of small-scale societies / Epilogue: Contingency in the environments of foraging societies / Victor D. Thompson -- Nicky Milner -- Torben C. Rick -- Junko Habu and Mark E. Hall -- Victor D. Thompson, John A. Turck, and Chester B. DePratter -- Patricia A. Gilman, Elizabeth M. Toney, and Nicholas H. Beale -- Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Paulo DeBlasis, and Maria Dulce Gaspar -- María Nieves Zedeño -- Steven C. Pennings -- Tristram R. Kidder -- 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.
Environmental archaeology. Human ecology. Ethnoecology. Indians--Antiquities. Hunting and gathering societies.