Ancient California: Reconstructing Lifeways with Behavioral Ecology Models
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Research in California has long been at the forefront in the adaptation of economic and behavioral ecology models for application to the archaeological record. This symposium presents a collection of new investigations of prehistoric foraging populations in California focused on reconstructing patterns of reproduction and population growth, subsistence and intensification, settlement patterns, and the emergence of a monetized economy. Contributors employ a range of models to demonstrate the adaptive flexibility that resulted in unparalleled hunter-gatherer population density and diversity of socio-political complexity in California.
Other Keywords
Stable Isotopes •
Diet •
Human Behavioral Ecology •
Fauna •
Seasonality •
Trade •
Fishing •
Experimental Archaeology •
Economic Anthropology •
Modeling
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
Nevada (State / Territory) •
California (State / Territory) •
North America (Continent) •
North America - California •
USA (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-9 of 9)
- Documents (9)
- Adaptive Dietary Response to Long-Term Drought: Diachronic Stable Isotope Evidence from the Central Sierra Nevada, California (2017)
- Ancient Origins of Ethnographic Shell Bead Money in Central California (2017)
- Beads all the way down: reassessing the economics of Shell Bead Production on Santa Cruz Island (2017)
- Did Increased Landscape Management through Pyrodiversity Lead to a Rise in Deer Procurement in the San Francisco Bay Area? (2017)
- Fertility in Ancient California: Life History Strategies and Implications for Demographics, Resource Intensification, and Social Organization (2017)
- Modeling the Relationship between Riverine Resource Exploitation, Technology, and Social Organization in the Sacramento River Basin (2017)
- Settlement Patterning and the Ideal Free Distribution in the Ethnographic and Prehistoric Sierra Nevada of California (2017)
- Stable Isotope Evidence of Seasonal Shellfish Harvesting and Consumption in Prehistoric Central California (2017)
- The Viability of Long-Distance Acorn Transport in Eastern California (2017)