| Description |
xiv, 232 p. : ill., maps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 / Maria Nieves Zedeno -- 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 Balee. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Environmental archaeology.
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Human ecology.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ecology.
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Indians -- Antiquities.
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Hunting and gathering societies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Waggoner, James C.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780813042428 (alk. paper) |
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9780813042664 (electronic bk.) |
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