The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies
ISBN: 9780813042428 | 0813042429
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Pub. Date: 1/8/2013
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Most research into humans' impact on the environment has focused on large-scale societies; a corollary assumption has been that small scale economies are sustainable and in harmony with nature. The contributors to this volume challenge this notion, revealing how such communities shaped their environment-and not always in a positive way. Offering case studies from around the world-from Brazil to Japan, Denmark to the Rocky Mountains-the chapters empirically demonstrate the substantial transformations of the surrounding landscape made by hunter-g... MORE
| List of Figures | p. vii |
| List of Tables | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Whispers on the Landscape | p. 1 |
| Case Studies | |
| Human Impacts on Oyster Resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Denmark | p. 17 |
| Hunter-Gatherers, Endemic Island Mammals, and the Historical Ecology of California's Channel Islands | p. 41 |
| Climate Cha... MORE | p. 65 |
| Cumulative Actions and the Historical Ecology of Islands along the Georgia Coast | p. 79 |
| A Historical Ecological Perspective on Early Agriculture in the North American Southwest and Northwest Mexico | p. 96 |
| Monumental Shell Mounds as Persistent Places in Southern Coastal Brazil | p. 120 |
| To Become a Mountain Hunter: Flexible Core Values and Subsistence Hunting among Reservation-Era Blackfeet | p. 141 |
| Comments and Considerations | |
| Forging Collaborations between Ecology and Historical Ecology | p. 167 |
| Observations about the Historical Ecology of Small-Scale Societies | p. 176 |
| Epilogue: Contingency in the Environments of Foraging Societies | p. 184 |
| Works Cited | p. 189 |
| List of Contributors | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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Victor D. Thompson is assistant professor at the University of Georgia. James C. Waggoner Jr. (1971-2009) conducted archaeological research in the southeastern United States.
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