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12,000 Year Record of Environmental Change From the Missouri Coteau, Central South Dakota (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric C. Grimm.

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Acts of Nature and Culture: Caves, Performance, and Transformation (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Holmberg.

The role of performance in disaster risk reduction provides the focus for evocative recent discussions of somatic experience, embodied knowledge, and climate change (e.g., Cosgrove and Kelman 2017). In this paper, I’d like to expand this perspective on the perception of dynamic environments through consideration of how material residues in caves link to large-scale transformations in the complexly entwined natural and cultural landscapes outside of the caves. I draw on four seemingly disparate...

Environmental and Cultural Change in Southwest Florida; Some Preliminary Results from Josslyn Island (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Marquardt. H. Stephen Hale. C. Margaret Scarry. Karen Jo Walker.

Environmental and Cultural Changes at the Late Archaic – Early Woodland Transition on the Georgia Coast, USA: A Dendrochronological and 14C-Based Approach (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. Victor Thompson. Robert Speakman. Alexander Cherkinsky. Robert Horan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We present a new multimillennial tree-ring chronology derived from subfossil bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) buried at the mouth of the Altamaha River on the Georgia Coast, USA, and discuss environmental and climatic changes indicated by tree-ring proxies, including ringwidth and chemical analyses. Finally, we examine modeled new and existing radiocarbon...

Environmental Change and the Neolithization of Southeast Europe: a Bulgarian perspective (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Gurova. Clive Bonsall.

Any discussion of Neolithization of the part of the Balkan Peninsula that lies within the territory of Bulgaria has to confront two seemingly long-established and incontrovertible ‘facts’ – the abrupt appearance of a fully developed Neolithic ‘package’ c. 6100/6000 cal BC, and the virtual archaeological ‘absence’ of a pre-Neolithic (Mesolithic) substratum. This paper focuses on two inadequately discussed aspects of the ongoing debate surrounding the spread of farming across SE Europe: 1) the...

Environmental change and the social context of human adaptation strategies during the Archaic Period in the Caribbean (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

The connection between environmental change and social response is complex because change occurs on multiple inter-related factors, human decisions are filtered by social buffers, and the rate and scale of environmental change differs from scale of human decision-making. In this presentation I consider the rate of coastal landscape change before the mid-Holocene affecting human settlement patterns in the Caribbean, evaluate traditional settlement patterns in the context of maritime culture, and...

Geochronology of the Tse-whit-zen Project (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Sterling. Ian Hutchinson. Jennie Shaw.

The use of high precision dates provides a chronological framework for reconstructing environmental conditions at the Tse-whit-zen site (45CA523) in Washington state. The geochronology of the site in is derived from high-precision radiocarbon dates taken from finely excavated deposits, with ages spanning the time period from ca. 2000 BP to contact. We have added 36 high precision AMS dates from short lived organic material, recovered from intact contexts, to the 52 original dates reported in...

The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context: Case Studies in Residence and Vulnerability (2014)

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In The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context, contributors reject the popularized link between societal collapse and drought in Maya civilization, arguing that a series of periodic "collapses," including the infamous Terminal Classic collapse (AD 750), were caused not solely by climate change-related droughts but by a combination of other social, political, and environmental factors. New and senior scholars of archaeology and environmental science explore the timing and intensity of droughts...

Habitat Change Versus Human Impact: Size and Frequency Trends in Multiple Taxa of Marine Invertebrates at Tse-whit-zen Village (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah K. Campbell. Erin Benson. Brendan Culleton. Douglas Kennett.

Tectonic activity along coastlines can subtly or radically alter the substrate and elevation of the intertidal zone, thus affecting benthic marine invertebrates; however, there is no single signature for impacts. Research following mega-earthquakes in the last decade shows that the nature of the effects varies widely across taxa and locations. Analysis of the Tse-whit-zen village invertebrate fauna shows that mean sizes of bivalves of the genera Macoma, Leukoma, Saxidomus, and Tresus, and also...

Holocene Sea Level Changes in the South Pacific: Implications for Human Settlement (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey T. Clark.

Itasca Bison Kill Site: An Ecological Analysis (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Thomas Shay.

A Lacustrine Revolution: Adaptive Shifts in the Late- and Postglacial of South Central Europe (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Jochim.

The environmental changes in Europe at the end of the last ice age had profound effects on human populations. One of these changes, the development of numerous lakes in the region north of the Alps, created new habitats and niches that were rapidly exploited, with significant effects on many aspects of behavior. The record of environmental and archaeological changes in Switzerland and southern Germany are examined with an emphasis on subsistence, technology, and land use. SAA 2015 abstracts...

Lower Connecticut River Valley Project: Report On the 1981 Field Season (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin A. McBride.

Pahsimeroi Valley Longitudinal Subsistance-Settlement and Land Use Study (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James C. Chatters.

Part I, Appendix B: Archaeobotanical Remains Form the Jones Ruin (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Miksicek.

Perceptions of Changing Landscape Mosaics in Southern Belize (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Zarger. Kristina Baines.

What drives human uncertainty when confronting gradual change versus catastrophic, rapid change? Based on longitudinal ethnographic data that includes household behavioral observations, oral histories and structured survey interviews of land use change, and continuous participant observation data, we describe the ways farming families in southern Belize have responded to changing environments over time, within the context of a mosaic of livelihood strategies. Ethnographic interviews with...

Post-Glacial Environmental Change and Hunting-Gathering Societies of the Southern Prairie Peninsula (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Bruce McMillan. Walter E. Klippel.

Recent Research Along the Upper Souris: the Souris Basin Heritage Study (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. T. Finnigan. D. R. Russel. O. Klimko.

Reconstructing Holocene Wetlands of Northern England: New Paleographic Models in the Humber Estuary (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric A. Rodriguez.

With the recent application of paleographic modelling on prehistoric wetland environments, it has been possible to observe not only the landscapes of past societies but also how the dynamic nature of these environs influenced the phenomenology and settlement patterns of such peoples. This paper focuses on two areas from Northern England’s Humber Estuary and describes the interactions between the reconstructed palaeolandscapes of Roos Carr and Ferriby and the shifting settlement patterns from the...

The Roots of the Modern Anthropocene: The Yellow River Valley, China, 5000-2000 BP (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tristram Kidder.

I use geoarchaeological data to argue that human activity in the late Holocene transformed the environments of the Yellow River, China, into an anthropogenic landscape and that these changes altered China’s history. Ancient China provides a critical case study for understanding how economic intensification, demographic change, technological innovation, and political centralization combine to create the roots of the modern Anthropocene. The Yellow River-- known as "China’s Sorrow"—is seen as a...

Scaling Food Practices: Contextual Comparison of Animal and Plant Remains from Banda, Ghana, during the Early Atlantic Era (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Stahl. Amanda Logan.

In this paper, we examine food practices in Banda, Ghana, during the tumultuous 15th to 17th centuries AD, as global scale political economic shifts collided with local economies. In Banda, significant involvement in northward-looking Niger trade began to erode as attention shifted towards emerging Atlantic networks. At the same time, paleoenvironmental records indicate a severe, multi-century drought. How did people negotiate these pressures in their everyday food practices? To address this...

Settlement Beyond the Alluvial Plains: Recent Findings from the 2016 Río Verde Settlement Project (RVSP), Coastal Oaxaca, Mexico (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Hedgepeth Balkin. Arthur Joyce. Raymond Mueller.

From January-June of 2016, an interdisciplinary dissertation study was conducted in the lower Río Verde Valley, Oaxaca, Mexico which was designed to investigate how prehispanic settlement patterning was affected by environmental productivity. The Río Verde Settlement Project (RVSP) included a continuation of the regional full-coverage survey as well as a systematic sedimentological sampling program to examine regional variation in soil fertility. This paper focuses on the initial results of the...

Spatial and temporal variation of prehistoric cultural elaboration in the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Raymond. Carl Lipo.

The Yazoo Basin of Mississippi is a rich and varied landscape that has been inhabited by humans for millennia. Sediment cores and tree-ring dates have documented that populations living in the basin had to contend with massive flooding events as well as substantial environmental change over the course of the Holocene. Populations contended with these changes by shifting settlement patterns, altering in subsistence strategies, engaging in intergroup competition, as well as varying investments in...

Summary of Environmental and Cultural Change In the Western Missouri Ozarks (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Bruce McMillan. W. Raymond Wood.

A Tale of Two Cities: The Role of Cultural Factors in Determining Resilience to Climate Change (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Schneider.

In recent decades, there has been an increasing interest at both the scholarly and public level in the relationship between social transformation and climate change in the past, and especially in the potential role of climate change as a cause of societal collapse. However, this focus has also raised some concerns that too much emphasis is being placed upon environmental factors in some archaeological collapse models, and consequently that important social factors are not being adequately taken...