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.

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