Hunter-fisher-gatherer (Other Keyword)
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Cooperation studies have become an essential area of knowledge across different disciplines. Within the humanities and the social sciences, it has been used to explain human behaviour as well as the maintenance of the social tissue itself. It has also given clues to explain the variability and the plasticity of human social organization at different levels. In this presentation we focus on Yamana society a nomadic hunter-fisherer-gatherer group that inhabited the southernmost region of South...
Monuments From The Sea: The Prehistoric Shellscapes of the Ten Thousand Islands, Fl (2016)
The Ten Thousand Islands, Everglades, Florida contain an impressive maritime landscape, composed of entire islands constructed and terraformed with shell midden. These shell work sites are the tangible and complex vestiges of hunter-fisher-gatherer communities. Shell work formations include extensive complexes of mounds and features. Similarities in temporal and spatial patterning among shell islands suggest that communities were interrelated across a broad region. Shell work islands and their...
Spinning Knowledge: Applications of High-Resolution Photogrammetry and Experimental Archaeology with Lithic Gorgets at Poverty Point WHS (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry, the production of 3D models from composite photographs, presents numerous possibilities in archaeological research and expands the accessibility of the field. We will discuss the potentials of high-resolution photogrammetry as an important resource, not only for research and analysis, but...