Cultural landscapes and long-term human ecology / Erick Robinson, Susan K. Harris, Brian F. Codding, editors.
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 po...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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2023.
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| Series: | Interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | 6.3 Explaining Variation Across Ethnographic Landscapes. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages). |
| 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. |
| ISBN: | 9783031496998 303149699X |