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OverviewThe 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 to evidence from the human past to shed light on the processes which link environmental and cultural change. Establishing clear contemporaneity and correlation, and then moving beyond correlation to causation, remains as much a theoretical task as a methodological one. This book addresses this challenge by exploring new approaches to human-environment dynamics and confronting the key task of constructing arguments that can link the two in concrete and detailed ways. The contributors include researchers working in a wide variety of regions and time periods, including Mesoamerica, Mongolia, East Africa, the Amazon Basin, and the Island Pacific, among others. Using methodological vignettes from their own research, the contributors explore diverse approaches to human-environment dynamics, illustrating the manifold nature of the subject and suggesting a wide variety of strategies for approaching it. This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in Archaeology, Paleoenvironmental Science, Ecology, and Geology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel ContrerasPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781138901735ISBN 10: 1138901733 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 13 September 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 Alluvial geoarchaeology 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 Micromorphology and agrosystems 4. Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation in the middle Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan Daniel A. Contreras and Cheryl Makarewicz Paleolandscape Reconstruction in Archaeology 5. Human-Environment Interactions through the Epipalaeolithic of Eastern Jordan Matthew D. Jones, Lisa Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, and Louise Martin Integrating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data through on-site and off-site stratigraphy 6. Living on the Edge: Pre-Columbian Habitation of the Desert Periphery of the Chicama Valley, Perú Ari Caramanica and Michele Koons Landscape Paleobotany7. A fine-grained analysis of terra preta formation: understanding causality through microartifactual and chemical indices in the Central Amazon Anna T. Browne Ribeiro Pedology for Archaeology 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 Spatially Explicit Behavioral Ecology 9. Describing Microenvironments Used for Nomadic Pastoralist Habitation Sites: Explanatory Tools for Surfaces, Places, and Networks Joshua Wright Simple Suitability Rasters as Tools for Archaeological Discovery 10. Soil Geochemistry and the Role of Nutrient Values in Understanding Archaic State Formation: A Case Study from Kaupō, Maui, Hawaiian Islands Alexander Baer Soil Geochemical Analyses in Archaeology Discussion 11. Epilogue Frances HayashidaReviewsAuthor InformationDaniel A. Contreras is an archaeologist focused on human-environment interactions in the past, particularly anthropogenic and geomorphic components of dynamic landscapes and environmental change. He pursues these interests in contexts ranging from complex polities in Andean South America and Mesoamerica to early Neolithic societies experimenting with domestication and village life in Southwest Asia. He is currently a LabEx OT-Med postdoctoral researcher in the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie (IMBE) and Groupement de recherche en économie quantitative d’Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) at Aix-Marseille Université. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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