Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction to Environmental Archaeology

      • Elizabeth J. Reitz, Lee A. Newsom, Sylvia J. Scudder, C. Margaret Scarry

      Pages 3-19

   3. Environmental Archaeology and Historical Archaeology

      • Kathleen A. Deagan

      Pages 21-42

   4. Historical Perspectives On Timbisha Shoshone Land Management Practices Death Valley California

      • Catherine S. Fowler

      Pages 43-57

3. The Physical Environment and Environmental Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Geoarchaeology and Archaeostratigraphy View from a Northwest Coast Shell Midden

      • Julie K. Stein

      Pages 61-80

   3. Anatomy of a Southwest Florida Sand Burial Mound Smith Mound at the Pineland Site Complex

      • Sylvia J. Scudder

      Pages 81-93

   4. Archaeozoology Art Documents and the Life Assemblage

      • Richard Cooke, Máximo Jiménez, Anthony J. Ranere

      Pages 95-121

   5. Using Land Snails and Freshwater Mussels to Chart Human Transformation of the Landscape an Example from North Mississippi U.S.A

      • Evan Peacock, Jochen Gerber

      Pages 123-141

   6. Climate Change and Archaeology: The Holocene History Of El Niño On The Coast Of Peru

      • C. Fred T. Andrus, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Elizabeth J. Reitz

      Pages 143-157

4. Human Ecology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Living on the Margins: Biobehavioral Adaptations in the Western Great Basin

      • Clark Spencer Larsen, Robert L. Kelly, Christopher B. Ruff, Margaret J. Schoeninger, Dale L. Hutchinson, Brian E. Hemphill

      Pages 161-189

   3. Pathoecology of Two Ancestral Pueblo Villages

      • Karl J. Reinhard

      Pages 191-209

   4. Nutritional Constraints and Mobility Patterns of Hunter-Gatherers in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert

      • Kristin D. Sobolik

      Pages 211-233

   5. Developing Models of Settlement for the Florida Gulf Coast

      • Michael Russo, Irvy R. Quitmyer

      Pages 235-254

   6. Reconstructing Subsistence in the Lowland Tropics A Case Study from the Jama River Valley Manabí Ecuador

      • Deborah M. Pearsall

      Pages 255-276

   7. What Seasonal Diet at a Fort Ancient Community Reveals About Coping Mechanisms

      • Gail E. Wagner

      Pages 277-296

   8. Game Procurement among Temperate Horticulturists The Case for Garden Hunting by the Dolores Anasazi

      • Sarah W. Neusius

      Pages 297-314

   9. The Emergence of Maize Farming in Northwest Mexico

      • Robert J. Hard, Karen R. Adams, John R. Roney, Kari M. Schmidt, Gayle J. Fritz

      Pages 315-333

A few years ago, one of us was approached by a student who asked if we really knew anything about human behavior from environmental archaeology. This student was taking an environmental archaeology course in which taphonomy and the biases of the techniques and methods used by environmental archae- ogists figured prominently. The goal was to train students to be informed users of environmental data. But the student, quite rightly, wanted to know if beyond taphonomy, recovery biases, and analytical biases, there was anything envir- mental archaeologists could say about the human condition. Her question was the stimulus for the first edition of this volume and continued to guide us as we edited this second edition. Our purpose is to show students and scholars, through a series of case studies, that there are things environmental archaeologists do know about the human-environmental relationship; many of which defy conventional archaeological expectations. To do so, however, we must break with the t- ditional organization of environmental archaeology along disciplinary lines. Environmental archaeology is intrinsically interdisciplinary. The demands of each discipline often mean, however, that specialists become further speci- ized in a very limited technical focus. While almost every environmental technique and method is represented in this edition, they are used as tools, not as ends in themselves.

• Evolution
• Horticulture
• Human Ecology
• Landscape Archaeology
• Paleoethnobotany
• environmental archaeology
• landscape
• sedentism

• Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, USA

  Elizabeth J. Reitz

• Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville

  Sylvia J. Scudder

• Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  C. Margaret Scarry

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