Dietary reconstruction and subsistence strategies of prehistoric hunter gatherers of the Texas Gulf Coast /

adjacent inland or coastal habitats. Evidence supporting

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimmerman, Laurie Sue , 1960-
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
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Description
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,
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.