The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions Strategies for Investigating Anthropogenic Landscapes, Dynamic Environments, and Climate Change in the Human Past

• Other Authors: Contreras, Daniel A. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group 2017
• Series: Routledge studies in archaeology 21
• Subjects: Environmental archaeology > Research; Social archaeology > Research; Human ecology > History > To 1500; Nature > Effect of human beings on > History > To 1500; Landscape changes > Social aspects > History > To 1500; Climatic changes > Social aspects > History > To 1500; Social change > History > To 1500; Paleoecology > Research; Paleoclimatology > Research
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"The impacts of climate change on human societies, and the roles those societies themselves play in altering their environments, appear in headlines more and more as concern over modern global climate change intensifies. Increasingly, archaeologists and paleoenvironmental scientists are looking...

Table of Contents:

• [1] Correlation is Not Enough : Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions / Daniel A. Contreras
• Case Studies
• [2] Convergence and Divergence as Problems of Explanation In Land Use Histories : Two Mexican Examples / Aleksander Borejsza and Arthur A. Joyce
• [3] From the river to the fields : the contribution of micromorphology to the study of hydro-agrosystems in semi-arid environments (Phoenix, Arizona) / Louise Purdue
• [4] Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation in the middle Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan / Daniel A. Contreras and Cheryl Makarewicz
• [5] Human-Environment Interactions through the Epipalaeolithic of Eastern Jordan / Matthew D. Jones, Lisa A. Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, and Louise Martin
• [6] Living on the Edge : Pre-Columbian Habitation of the Desert Periphery of the Chicama Valley, Perú / Ari Caramanica and Michele L. Koons
• [7] A fine-grained analysis of terra preta formation: understanding causality through microartifactual and chemical indices in the Central Amazon / Anna T. Browne Ribeiro
• [8] External Impacts on Internal Dynamics : Effects of Paleoclimatic and Demographic Variability on Acorn Exploitation along the Central California Coast / Brian F. Codding and Terry L. Jones
• [9] Describing Microenvironments Used for Nomadic Pastoralist Habitation Sites : Explanatory Tools for Surfaces, Places, and Networks / Joshua Wright
• [10] Soil Geochemistry and the Role of Nutrient Values in Understanding Archaic State Formation : A Case Study from Kaupo, Maui, Hawaiian Islands / Alexander Baer
• Discussion
• [11] Epilogue / Frances Hayashida.