Dietary reconstruction and subsistence strategies of prehistoric hunter gatherers of the Texas Gulf Coast /
adjacent inland or coastal habitats. Evidence supporting
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | adjacent inland or coastal habitats. Evidence supporting and shellfish. Residential mobility patterns may be annual dietary regime and the subsistence strategies of bearing midden sites were integrated to reconstruct the correlated with seasonal changes and resource density. deer and bison, represented economically important environment, carefully scheduling subsistence activities. Ethnohistorical and archeological data sets from 13 shell- gatherers represents the adaptational pattern characterizing grease in an effort to provide fat, and by technological hunting and gathering populations living along the Upper important dietary constituents. The results indicate that innovations occurring by A.D. 100th at include: Logistical mobility patterns enabled the indigenous Population aggregates formed in high density resource areas. populations to complement their resource base by exploiting predictable, lowrisk resources such as nuts, tubers, fish, present study by the increase in the exploitation of smaller resources. Fish, shellfish, and plant resources were other rrow (Aten 1983b:321). sized mammals and fish, the extraction of both marrow and subsistence diversification has been documented in the Texas Coast from 5,039 B.C. until A.D. 1700. Hunter-fisher- the aboriginal populations were highly attuned to their the indigenous populations. Large mammals, particularly theinitialuseofceramiccontainersandtheinitialuseofthebowanda These areas are characterized by abundant non-mobile, |
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| Item Description: | "Major Subject: Anthropology". Pagination error, page 267 lacking. Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 281 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 253-280. |