Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments
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Agent-based modelling
aquatic foragers
Archaic
Artic
Atacama Desert
Bayesian Modelling
behavioral ecology
Boserup
California
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Chiapas
coastal and maritime societies
coastal archaeology
Costly Signaling Theory
Early Formative
economic intensification
emerging direction
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evolutionary ecology
fishing communities
foraging
forestry
Global
human behavior
Human Behavioral Ecology
hunter-gatherer-fishers
Ideal-Free Distribution
Later Stone Age
Machault
Mediterranean
Middle Holocene
Middle Stone Age
mobility
mollusks
Neolithic
Northern Australia
optimal foraging theory
Pacific Islands
Pacific Northwest Coast
paleodemography
population pressure
regional overviews
Samoa
settlement chronology
Settlement Patterns
shell fishing
shell midden
ship construction
Shipwrecks
South Africa
Subartic
Subsistence strategies
swordfish hunting
theory
timber selection
traditional ecological knowledge
traditional models
women's leadership
Zooarchaeology
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- ISBN 9780813069586
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2023
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 coastlines and islands are dynamic environments that were important in early human migrations, and this volume shows how researchers can gain insights about human behavior in these settings through its critical regional reviews and detailed local case studies.
The volume begins by introducing the importance of theory in the reconstruction of human behavior and provides examples of traditional foraging models. Contributors then offer perspectives from North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Polynesia. They discuss unique challenges faced by coastal societies, including extreme seasonality, patchy resource distribution, natural hazards, balancing coastal and terrestrial resource needs, aquatic technological innovation, and multiscale environmental change.
Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments demonstrates that exploring decision-making and cultural behaviors is key to understanding how humans have lived in and related to these environments. Through its application of human behavioral ecology models, this volume sheds light on the evolving adaptations of societies in a variety of coastal contexts through time and across space.
A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick.
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 coastlines and islands are dynamic environments that were important in early human migrations, and this volume shows how researchers can gain insights about human behavior in these settings through its critical regional reviews and detailed local case studies.
The volume begins by introducing the importance of theory in the reconstruction of human behavior and provides examples of traditional foraging models. Contributors then offer perspectives from North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Polynesia. They discuss unique challenges faced by coastal societies, including extreme seasonality, patchy resource distribution, natural hazards, balancing coastal and terrestrial resource needs, aquatic technological innovation, and multiscale environmental change.
Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments demonstrates that exploring decision-making and cultural behaviors is key to understanding how humans have lived in and related to these environments. Through its application of human behavioral ecology models, this volume sheds light on the evolving adaptations of societies in a variety of coastal contexts through time and across space.
A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick.
Heather B. Thakar is assistant professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University.
Carola Flores Fernandez is assistant professor at Escuela de Arqueología, Universidad Austral, Puerto Montt and associate researcher at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas in Chile.
Carola Flores Fernandez is assistant professor at Escuela de Arqueología, Universidad Austral, Puerto Montt and associate researcher at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas in Chile.
