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The archaeology and historical ecology of small scale economies / Victor D. Thompson and James C. Waggoner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Victor D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental archaeology.
- Human ecology.
- Indigenous peoples--Ecology.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indians--Antiquities.
- Indians.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4307-7
- 0-8130-4266-6
- OCLC:
- 988505941
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