The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Socioecological Dynamics of Holocene Foragers and Farmers" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium brings together researchers working on long-term changes in the socioecology of foraging and farming populations in North America. We attempt to answer key questions, such as, How do climate and population interact to drive long-term changes in hunting and plant food processing; and how do such changes in subsistence practices, in turn, impact population growth, group size, and burial practices among-foragers/farmers? The symposium aims to better understand such questions by bringing together specialists working on case studies in the semiarid grasslands of North America. Each poster will present data on long-term changes in material culture, climate, subsistence, and/or population processes, and the posters will each present different methodological approaches to understanding the long-term interactions between climate, population dynamics, and social/subsistence change.