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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Erick Robinson, Susan K. Harris, Brian F. Codding, (eds.)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

1st ed. 2024, 1st ed. 2023, US, 2024

Springer Nature, Cham, 2023

Switzerland, Switzerland

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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
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
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
6.3 Explaining Variation Across Ethnographic Landscapes
6.3.1 When Men’s Hunting Fails, Women’s Work Dominates Production: Martu
6.3.2 When Men’s Hunting Is Reliable, Their Labor Dominates Production: Alyawarre
6.4 Explaining Variation Across Ethnoarchaeological Landscapes
6.5 Explaining Variation Across Archaeological Landscapes
6.6 Summary and Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Niche Construction and the Ideal Free Distribution: Partners in Characterizing Past Human-Environmental Dynamics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Niche Construction and the Ideal Free Distribution
7.2.1 Discussion: A Question of Scale? Niches, Habitats, and Suitability
7.2.2 Niche Construction and Transhumance
7.2.3 Transhumance, Niches, and the IFD
7.3 Conclusions
References
Chapter 8: Reconsidering the Amazonian Interfluvial Occupation
8.1 Amazonian Diversity
8.2 The Floodplain and the Interfluve
8.3 The Pardo River, Entering into an Interfluvial Zone
8.4 Excavations
8.5 Patterns
8.6 Discussion
8.7 Is There a Sociopolitical or Environmental Periphery in the Amazon?
8.8 The Interfluve as More Pristine?
8.9 Mobility and Long Distance Travel
8.10 A Vision Moving Forward
References
Chapter 9: Holocene Human Ecology and Adaptation to Millennial- and Centennial-Scale Climate Change: A Case Study from the North Sea Basin
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Coupling the Human System to the Natural System in the Southern North Sea Basin
9.2.1 The Natural System
9.2.2 The Human System
9.3 A Chronological Model for Diachronic Change in the RMS Mesolithic
9.4 A New Hypothesis for Mesolithic Adaptations to Environmental Change in the RMS Region
9.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Technological Changes in Lithic Reduction as a Chronological Indicator in Surface Artifact Scatters
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Late Palaeolithic
10.3 Early Mesolithic
10.4 Late Mesolithic
10.5 Research History
10.6 Discriminant Analysis
10.6.1 Chronologically Significant Variables
10.6.2 Training Samples
10.6.3 Survey Sites as New Cases to Be Classified
10.6.4 Analysis – Discriminant Analysis
10.7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Neolithic Cultural Landscapes in Southwestern Germany: Exploring Contributions of Regional Survey
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Environmental and Archaeological Context of the Southwest German Neolithic
11.3 Plowzone Surveys: Methods and Survey Coverage
11.4 Geographic Setting and History of Research
11.5 Distribution of Neolithic Archaeological Sites in and around the Study Areas
11.6 Exploring Potential of Plowzone Surveys: A Non-site Approach
11.7 Survey Results
11.7.1 Upper Swabian Study Area: Moraine Lowlands
11.7.2 Swabian Alb Study Area
11.7.3 Identifying Neolithic Materials in Surface Scatters
11.7.4 Low Density of Neolithic Finds in Upper Swabian Surveys
11.7.5 Neolithic Finds from Swabian Alb Surveys
11.8 Exploring Potential Contributions of Regional Survey in Southwest Germany
11.8.1 Neolithic Land Use Patterns in Comparison to Earlier Prehistoric Periods
11.8.2 Distribution of Neolithic Activities around Settlements
11.8.3 Directions for Future Research
References
Chapter 12: Neolithic and Bronze Age Bog Settlements in the Federsee Basin (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
12.1 Environmental Context and State of Research
12.2 Houses, Settlement Types and Society
12.3 Mobility and Settlement Systems
12.4 Paths of Settlement, Fluctuations of the Lake Levels, Climatic and Economic Changes
12.5 Transformation of the Landscape
12.6 Final Discussion
References
Index

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2024

2024-02-09