Clean and unmarked, inside and out. Corners unbumped, binding tight. A diverse set of papers dealing with various aspects of human ecology of native peoples who lived in the Northeast after the Pleistocene. Several of the techniques of anaysis could be used elsewhere as well. Date: 1988. Plenum Press ISBN 0306428695 9780306428692 [US]

ISBN10: 0306428695, ISBN13: 9780306428692, [publisher: Springer US] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not only have illuminated the backdrop against which culture is viewed, but have identi fied many of the conditions that influence or promote technological develop ment, social transformation, and economic reorganization. It has become in creaSingly evident, however, that if we are to explore more forcefully the linkages between culture and environment, a processual orientation is required. This is found in human ecology-the study of the relationship between people and the ecosystem of which they are a part. This book is a collection of papers about the recent and distant past by scientists and humanists involved in the study of human ecology in northeastern North America. The authors critically examine the systemic interface between people and their environment first by identifying the indicators of that rela tionship (e.g., historical documentation, archaeological site patterning, faunal remains), then by defining the processes by which change in one part of the ecosystem affects other parts (e.g., by conSidering how an ecotonal gradient affects biotic communities over time), and finally by explicating the behavioral implications thereof.
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