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Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest
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Description for Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest
Hardcover. This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest making significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical and computer-aided modeling. Editor(s): Doyel, David E; Dean, Jeffrey S. Num Pages: 359 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 789.
Archaeology provides an ideal avenue for examining long-term processes and interrelationships between human behavior and environmental stability, variation, and change. The American Southwest is particularly well suited for such 'deep-time' investigations because of its comprehensive archaeological record, rich ethnographic and historical data on its peoples, and unmatched reconstructions of multiple environmental variables across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales.
This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest. It makes significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical ... Read more
Archaeology provides an ideal avenue for examining long-term processes and interrelationships between human behavior and environmental stability, variation, and change. The American Southwest is particularly well suited for such 'deep-time' investigations because of its comprehensive archaeological record, rich ethnographic and historical data on its peoples, and unmatched reconstructions of multiple environmental variables across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales.
This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest. It makes significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9780874808537
SKU
V9780874808537
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99-1
About
David E. Doyel owns and operates Estrella Cultural Research and is adjunct faculty in anthropology at Arizona State University. Jeffrey S. Dean is professor of dendrochronology (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research) and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, and curator of archaeology for the Arizona State Museum.
Reviews for Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest
"An excellent contribution to our understanding of human ecology and the prehistory of the American Southwest." — Daniel Larson, California State University, Long Beach "The authors should be commended for the excellent job the chapters do in showing how environmental change can be used to strengthen our understanding of the past, as all of the social ... Read more