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Examples of a research approach that sheds light on coastal societies in the past. In this volume, contributors apply human behavioral ecology theoretical models to coastal environments around the globe and to the use of coastal resources by past human societies. Evidence demonstrates that coastline...

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Other Authors: Thompson, Victor D. (author of foreword.), Fitzpatrick, Scott M. (author of foreword.), Thakar, Heather B. (Editor), Flores Fernandez, Carola (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2023].
Series:Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.
Subjects:
Coastal settlements > Environmental conditions.
Coastal archaeology.
Human ecology > History.
Human behavior > History.
Coastal ecology > History.
Environmental management.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Coastal settlements.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins / Heather B. Thakar, Carola Flores Fernandez, and Shannon Tushingham
  • Part I. Regional Overviews
  • Human Behavioral Ecology and the Complexities of Arctic Environments / Catherine F. West, Erik Gjesfjeld, Shelby Anderson, and Ben Fitzhugh
  • Aquatic Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers: Evolutionary Frameworks in Northeast Pacific Rim Archaeology / Shannon Tushingham
  • Potential Applications of Human Behavioral Ecology in the Prehistoric Mediterranean /
  • Daniel Plekhov, Evan Levine, and Thomas P. Leppard
  • Part II. Local Case Studies
  • Human Niche Construction and Shifts in Subsistence and Settlement during the Early Formative in the Eastern Soconusco Mangrove Zone / James T. Daniels Jr., Heather B. Thakar, and Hector Neff
  • Swordfish Hunting as Prestige Signaling? A Case Study from Middle Holocene Fishing Communities of the Atacama Desert Coast / Carola Flores Fernandez and Laura Olguín
  • Eighteenth-Century Shipbuilding and Forestry Management: Assessing the Impacts of Resource Intensification in Southwestern France / Marijo Gauthier-Bérubé and Heather B. Thakar
  • What Makes a Forager Turn Coastal? An Agent-Based Approach to Coastal Foraging on the Paleoscape of South Africa / Colin D. Wren, Marco A. Janssen, Kim Hill, and Curtis W. Marean
  • Evaluating Mid- to Late Holocene Economic Intensification through Analysis of a Mollusk Assemblage on the Tropical North Australian Coast / Martin Wright, Patrick Faulkner, and Michael Westaway
  • Application of the Ideal Free Distribution Model to Pacific Island Settlement Patterns: A Case Study from Tutuila Island, American Sāmoa / Alex E. Morrison, Robert J. DiNapoli, Melinda S. Allen, and Timothy M. Rieth
  • Conclusion: Advances in Current Theoretical Approaches to Coastal Archaeology / Heather B. Thakar and Carola Flores Fernandez.