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Title Cultural landscapes and long-term human ecology Erick Robinson, Susan K. Harris, Brian F. Codding, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (305 p.)
Series Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology.
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Cultural Landscapes and Long-Term Human Ecology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Evolving Diversity of the Ecological Approach in Archaeology -- 1.3 Scale Dependence of Archaeological Theory, Method, and Data -- 1.4 The Future of Archaeology -- References -- Chapter 2: Models, Foragers, Human Beings, and a Hunter-Gatherer Career -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Thinking About Hunters and Gatherers -- 2.3 Thinking About Optimal Foraging Models -- 2.3.1 Does Anyone Optimize Ever? -- 2.3.2 Hunting in the Deeper Past and in Colder Places
2.3.3 We All Have Neighbors and They Have Good Stuff -- 2.4 A Career Looking Outside of Our Blinders -- 2.4.1 Archaeology Is Hard: Research Over the Long Haul -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Defining and Modeling the Dimensions of Settlement Choice: An Empirical Approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Contributing to Theory-Building and Explanation -- 3.1.2 Considering Variables of the Physical and Social Environments -- 3.1.3 Getting Rid of "Non-Sites" -- 3.2 Case Study Settlements and Region -- 3.2.1 Database and Variables
3.3 Getting at the Dimensions of Settlement Choice: A PCA Tactic -- 3.3.1 Component Selection -- 3.3.2 Readjustment of Components by Outlier Removal -- 3.3.3 Bootstrapping -- 3.3.4 Restrictive Variation -- 3.3.5 Visualization of Principal Components -- 3.4 Putting It All Together: Mahalanobis D2 as a Single-Class Model -- 3.4.1 Calculation of D2 -- 3.4.2 Conversion to Probabilities -- 3.5 Model Evaluations -- 3.5.1 Performance of Transformed Mahalanobis D2 -- 3.5.2 Performance of Logistic Regression Model -- 3.5.3 Performance of Maximum Entropy Model -- 3.5.4 Discussion -- 3.6 Conclusions
Chapter 5: Caribou Inuit Activity and Settlement Around Yathkyed Lake: A Record of Archaeological Features in an Inland Arctic Landscape, Canada -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 The Caribou Inuit -- 5.2 Location, Seasonality and Activity -- 5.3 Archaeological Data: Correlates of Activity and Season -- 5.4 Analysis of Sites -- 5.4.1 Archaeological Evidence for Seasons and Activities -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Resource Acquisition Risk and the Division of Labor: Austral Lessons for Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theoretical Framework and Empirical Predictions
Summary Bringing together an international set of scholars, this volume presents integrative theoretical and methodological perspectives linking two complementary approaches in anthropological archaeology: cultural landscapes and human ecology. Authors grapple with issues ranging from the hunter-gatherer populations of North America and the emergence of the Neolithic in Europe to contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, using approaches from ethnoarchaeology to geomorphology, and methodological specialties from stable isotopes to social networks, in order to shed light on prehistoric human adaptations and how they produce cultural variation on a landscape scale. Together, contributions to this volume illustrate how interdisciplinary and integrative perspectives can aid archaeology by providing the means necessary to interpret and explain long-term records of human activity. This book capitalizes on the unique position of archaeology, and the long-term records of human ecology and cultural resilience the discipline develops, to make significant contributions to contemporary discussions of long-term climate human-environment interactions throughout the Holocene. The book is therefore produced during a perfect time in which other disciplines are focusing on the unique contribution that can be made by archaeology
Bibliography References Cited -- Chapter 4: Isobiographies and Archaeology Beyond Long-Term Ethnography: Life History Reconstruction Using Stable Isotopes -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Human Skeletal Tissues -- 4.3 Geographic vs. Dietary Tracers -- 4.4 Isobiographies -- 4.4.1 Bone -- 4.4.2 Teeth -- 4.4.3 Dental Calculus -- 4.4.3.1 Hair -- 4.5 Case Studies from Ancient California -- 4.5.1 Case 1: Inter-Tooth and Bone Isobiographies -- 4.5.2 Case 2: Intra-Tooth Isobiographies -- 4.5.3 Case 3: Short-Term Hair Isobiography -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References
Notes 6.3 Explaining Variation Across Ethnographic Landscapes
Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 22, 2024)
Subject Archaeology.
Human ecology.
Cultural landscapes.
archaeology.
human ecology.
cultural landscapes.
Form Electronic book
Author Robinson, Erick.
Harris, Susan K
Codding, Brian F.
ISBN 9783031496998
303149699X