Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology

Name: Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology
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ISBN: 9780387713960

ISBN-10: 0387713964

ISBN-13: 9780387713960

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Elizabeth Reitz, C. Margaret Scarry, Sylvia J. Scudder

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The purpose of Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology is to highlight studies addressing significant anthropological issues in the Americas from the perspective of environmental archaeology. Environmental archaeology encompasses the application of biological and geological techniques to the study of human/environmental interactions. Each chapter is an original or revised work by internationally-recognized geoarchaeologists, human biologists, paleoethnobotanists, and zooarchaeologists. Each study demonstrates how and why the information obtained using environmental techniques is important to anthropologists instead of describing, critiquing, or advocating a method. These ethnographic,…

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List price: $59.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 12/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 463
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




Introduction



Introduction to Environmental Archaeology




Environmental Archaeology and Historical Archaeology




Historical Perspectives on Timbisha Shoshone Land Management Practices, Death Valley, California




The Physical Environment And Environmental Change



Geoarchaeology and Archaeostratigraphy: View from a Northwest Coast Shell Midden




Anatomy of a Southwest Florida Sand Burial Mound: Smith Mound at the Pineland Site Complex




Archaeozoology, Art, Documents, and the Life Assemblage




Using Land Snails and Freshwater Mussels to Chart Human Transformation of the Landscape: An Example from North Mississippi, U.S.A.




Climate Change and Archaeology: The Holocene History of El Ni&numlet;o on the Coast of Peru




Human Ecology



Living on the Margins: Biobehavioral Adaptations in the Western Great Basin




Pathoecology of Two Ancestral Pueblo Villages




Nutritional Constraints and Mobility Patterns of Hunter-Gatherers in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert




Developing Models of Settlement for the Florida Gulf Coast




Reconstructing Subsistence in the Lowland Tropics: A Case Study from the Jama River Valley, Manabï¿½, Ecuador




What Seasonal Diet at a Fort Ancient Community Reveals About Coping Mechanisms




Game Procurement among Temperate Horticulturists: The Case for Garden Hunting by the Dolores Anasazi




The Emergence of Maize Farming in Northwest Mexico




Social And Economic Strategies



Meat Consumption and Bone Use in a Mississippian Village




Who Ate What? Archaeological Food Remains and Cultural Diversity




Seasonal Slaughter Cycles and Urban Food Supply in the Colonial Chesapeake




Crop Husbandry Practices in North America's Eastern Woodlands




Pets and Camp Followers in the West Indies



Index of Common and Scientific Names


Subject Index