Fisher-hunter-gatherer complexity in North America / edited by Christina Perry Sampson ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perry Sampson, Christina Perry, editor.

Thompson, Victor D., writer of foreword.

Fitzpatrick, Scott M., writer of foreword.

Series:

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.

Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--North America.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Hunting and gathering societies--North America.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Maritime anthropology--North America.

Maritime anthropology.

North America--History.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2023]

Summary:

"Demonstrating the wide variation among complex hunter-gatherer communities in coastal settingsThis book explores the forms and trajectories of social complexity among fisher-hunter-gatherers who lived in coastal, estuarine, and riverine settings in pre-Columbian North America. Through case studies from several different regions and intellectual traditions, the contributors to this volume collectively demonstrate remarkable variation in the circumstances and histories of complex hunter-gatherers in maritime environments.The volume draws on archaeological research from the North Pacific and Alaska, the Pacific Northwest coast and interior, the California Channel Islands, and the Southeastern U.S. and Florida. Essays trace complex social configurations through monumentality, ceremonialism, territoriality, community organization, and trade and exchange. They show that while factors such as boat travel, patterns of marine and riverine resource availability, and sedentism and village formation are common unifying threads across the continent, these factors manifest in historically contingent ways in different contexts.Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America offers specific, substantive examples of change and transformation in these communities, emphasizing the wide range of complexity among them. It considers the use of the term "complex hunter-gatherer" and what these case studies show about the value and limitations of the concept, adding nuance to an ongoing conversation in the field. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the forms and trajectories of social complexity among fisher-hunter-gatherers who lived in coastal, estuarine, and riverine settings in pre-Columbian North America"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Christina Perry Sampson

Social Change and the Construction of Landscapes in the Salish Sea / Colin Grier

Ethnography and the Interpretation of Ancient Sociopolitical Structure in the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia / Anna Marie Prentiss, Alexandra Williams-Larson, and Ashley Hampton

Unanga{.x} Complexity in the Rat Islands, Alaska / Caroline Funk, Bobbi Hornbeck, and Ariel Taivalkoski

Regional Histories of Craft and Exchange on the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast of Florida / Christina Perry Sampson

Selfish for Shellfish? Magnanimous about Mollusks? The Transformation of Cooperation across the First Millennium AD at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA / Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Victor D. Thompson, J. Matthew Compton, C. Trevor Duke, and Isabelle H. Lulewicz

Late Holocene Sociopolitical Complexity and Changes in Archaeological Patterns at Secondary Settlement Locations on California?s Northern Channel Islands / Scott D. Sunell and Christopher S. Jazwa

Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity on California?s Channel Islands: Feasting, Ceremonialism, and the Ritual Economy / Mikael Fauvelle and Jennifer E. Perry

Envisioning Variations in Complexity among Complex Hunter-Gatherers / Tristram R. Kidder

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Project Muse, viewed on November 13, 2023).

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Perry Sampson, Christina Perry Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America

ISBN:

0-8130-6765-0

0-8130-7038-4

OCLC:

1378932776