Intentional Sustainability in Human Behavioral Ecology: Modeling Athabascan Caribou Predation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The paradigm of Human Behavioral Ecology (HBE) utilizes behavioral ecological models to understand the adaptive relationship between human behavior and the environment in which people reside. The introduction of intentional sustainability to HBE models benefits this paradigm by diversifying the factors that influence human behavior and developing a greater understanding of the relationships between people and their environments. Based on archaeological and modern information associated with Dene (Athabascan) predation of Alaskan caribou herds, an analytical model can be constructed to account for intentional sustainability as a contributing factor to forager behavior. The results of this model combined with the perspectives of modern stakeholders in caribou conservation, including Dene and non-Dene hunters, community sustainability organizations, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, could be utilized to develop more effective modern caribou conservation that is informed by the archaeological record of the relationship between hunter gatherers and caribou.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40214.0