Model Environments: Human Ecodynamics on Islands

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)

Although island archaeology has moved beyond the simplistic "islands as laboratories" view, islands continue to be used as models for coupled human and natural systems, or human ecodynamics. Island environments have the potential to serve as useful case studies for a range of important topics in world prehistory, especially when approached comparatively. This session will address a range of issues implied by human ecodynamics on islands, such as historical ecology, migration and interaction, subsistence change, conflict and territoriality, impacts on native biota, monumentality, and sociocultural evolution. Papers will address theoretical and substantive topics from islands and archipelagos across the globe. Those taking a comparative approach are especially welcome.

Other Keywords
Mediterranean • Environmental Archaeology • Human Ecodynamics • Agriculture • Archaeology • Zooarchaeology • Human Ecology • Exchange • Paleoethnobotany • Subsistence Change

Geographic Keywords
Oceania • Europe • Caribbean • Kingdom of Sweden (Country) • Kingdom of Norway (Country) • French Republic (Country) • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) • Ireland (Country) • Isle of Man (Country) • Kingdom of Belgium (Country)

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Documents

Animal exploitation in the early prehistory of the Balearic Islands (2016)

California’s Channel Islands as a Model System for Understanding the Historical Ecology of Islands (2016)

Coastal development and palaeoenvironment on the north coast of Papua New Guinea: the Paniri Creek sequence (2016)

Comparative Ecodynamics of North Atlantic Islands: A progress report (2016)

Diet change in the Ceramic Age Caribbean archipelago (2016)

Ecological contingency in very early offshore seafaring (2016)

From the Aegean to the Adriatic: Exploring the Neolithization of Islands (2016)

Human Ecodynamics of Subarctic Islands of the North Atlantic and North Pacific in Comparative Perspective (2016)

Late Holocene Human Expansion into Near and Remote Oceania: A Bayesian Model-Based Comparison of the Chronologies of the Mariana Islands and Lapita Settlement (2016)

Marginality is the Mother of Invention: A New Institutional Economics Perspective (2016)

Modelling climate impacts on human societies and marine fisheries in central Polynesia (2016)

Re-assessing island colonization and exploitation in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Mediterranean (2016)

Resource Structure, Economic Defendability, and Conflict in Rapa Nui and Rapa Iti, East Polynesia – an agent-based modeling approach (2016)

Returning to the Gardens of Lono: New Investigations in the Kona Field System, Hawaii Island (2016)

When to Hunt a Sea Lion, When to Hunt a Manatee: The Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Mammal Hunting in Insular Settings (2016)