The archaeology of human-environment interactions : strategies for investigating anthropogenic landscapes, dynamic environments, and climate change in the human past / edited by Daniel A. Contreras

• HerausgeberIn: Contreras, Daniel
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: First published
• Language: English
• Physical Description: XIV, 268 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme

"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

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• Correlation is Not Enough : Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions / Daniel A. Contreras
• [1] Case Studies
• Convergence and Divergence as Problems of Explanation In Land Use Histories : Two Mexican Examples / Aleksander Borejsza and Arthur A. Joyce
• [2] Alluvial geoarchaeology
• From the river to the fields : the contribution of micromorphology to the study of hydro-agrosystems in semi-arid environments (Phoenix, Arizona) / Louise Purdue
• [3] Micromorphology and agrosystems
• Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation in the middle Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan / Daniel A. Contreras and Cheryl Makarewicz
• [4] Paleolandscape Reconstruction in Archaeology
• Human-Environment Interactions through the Epipalaeolithic of Eastern Jordan / Matthew D. Jones, Lisa Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, and Louise Martin
• [5] Integrating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data through on-site and off-site stratigraphy
• Living on the Edge : Pre-Columbian Habitation of the Desert Periphery of the Chicama Valley, Perú / Ari Caramanica and Michele Koons
• [7] Landscape Paleobotany
• A fine-grained analysis of terra preta formation: understanding causality through microartifactual and chemical indices in the Central Amazon / Anna T. Browne Ribeiro
• [8] Pedology for Archaeology
• 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] Spatially Explicit Behavioral Ecology
• Describing Microenvironments Used for Nomadic Pastoralist Habitation Sites : Explanatory Tools for Surfaces, Places, and Networks / Joshua Wright
• [10] Simple Suitability Rasters as Tools for Archaeological Discovery
• Soil Geochemistry and the Role of Nutrient Values in Understanding Archaic State Formation : A Case Study from Kaupo, Maui, Hawaiian Islands / Alexander Baer
• [11] Soil Geochemical Analyses in Archaeology
• Discussion
• Epilogue / Frances Hayashida