The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies

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Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. Whispers on the Landscape 1 Victor D. Thompson Part I. Case Studies 2. Human Impacts on Oyster Resources at the Mesolithic–Neolithic Transition in Denmark 17 Nicky Milner 3. Hunter-Gatherers, Endemic Island Mammals, and the Historical Ecology of California’s Channel Islands 41 Torben C. Rick 4. Climate Change, Human Impacts on the Landscape, and Subsistence Specialization: Historical Ecology and Changes in Jomon HunterGatherer Lifeways 65 Junko Habu and Mark E. Hall 5. Cumulative Actions and the Historical Ecology of Islands along the Georgia Coast 79 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 96 Patricia A. Gilman, Elizabeth M. Toney, and Nicholas H. Beale 7. Monumental Shell Mounds as Persistent Places in Southern Coastal Brazil 120 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 141 María Nieves Zedeño Part II. Comments and Considerations 9. Forging Collaborations between Ecology and Historical Ecology 167 Steven C. Pennings 10. Observations about the Historical Ecology of Small-Scale Societies 176 Tristram R. Kidder 11. Epilogue: Contingency in the Environments of Foraging Societies 184 William Balée Works Cited 189 List of Contributors 223 Index 229 ...