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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Cultural Landscapes and Long-Term Human Ecology -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Evolving Diversity of the Ecological Approach in Archaeology -- 1.3 Scale Dependence of Archaeological Theory, Method, and Data -- 1.4 The Future of Archaeology -- References -- Chapter 2: Models, Foragers, Human Beings, and a Hunter-Gatherer Career -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Thinking About Hunters and Gatherers -- 2.3 Thinking About Optimal Foraging Models -- 2.3.1 Does Anyone Optimize Ever? -- 2.3.2 Hunting in the Deeper Past and in Colder Places -- 2.3.3 We All Have Neighbors and They Have Good Stuff -- 2.4 A Career Looking Outside of Our Blinders -- 2.4.1 Archaeology Is Hard: Research Over the Long Haul -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Defining and Modeling the Dimensions of Settlement Choice: An Empirical Approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Contributing to Theory-Building and Explanation -- 3.1.2 Considering Variables of the Physical and Social Environments -- 3.1.3 Getting Rid of "Non-Sites" -- 3.2 Case Study Settlements and Region -- 3.2.1 Database and Variables -- 3.3 Getting at the Dimensions of Settlement Choice: A PCA Tactic -- 3.3.1 Component Selection -- 3.3.2 Readjustment of Components by Outlier Removal -- 3.3.3 Bootstrapping -- 3.3.4 Restrictive Variation -- 3.3.5 Visualization of Principal Components -- 3.4 Putting It All Together: Mahalanobis D2 as a Single-Class Model -- 3.4.1 Calculation of D2 -- 3.4.2 Conversion to Probabilities -- 3.5 Model Evaluations -- 3.5.1 Performance of Transformed Mahalanobis D2 -- 3.5.2 Performance of Logistic Regression Model -- 3.5.3 Performance of Maximum Entropy Model -- 3.5.4 Discussion -- 3.6 Conclusions -- References Cited.
Chapter 4: Isobiographies and Archaeology Beyond Long-Term Ethnography: Life History Reconstruction Using Stable Isotopes -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Human Skeletal Tissues -- 4.3 Geographic vs. Dietary Tracers -- 4.4 Isobiographies -- 4.4.1 Bone -- 4.4.2 Teeth -- 4.4.3 Dental Calculus -- 4.4.3.1 Hair -- 4.5 Case Studies from Ancient California -- 4.5.1 Case 1: Inter-Tooth and Bone Isobiographies -- 4.5.2 Case 2: Intra-Tooth Isobiographies -- 4.5.3 Case 3: Short-Term Hair Isobiography -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Caribou Inuit Activity and Settlement Around Yathkyed Lake: A Record of Archaeological Features in an Inland Arctic Landscape, Canada -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 The Caribou Inuit -- 5.2 Location, Seasonality and Activity -- 5.3 Archaeological Data: Correlates of Activity and Season -- 5.4 Analysis of Sites -- 5.4.1 Archaeological Evidence for Seasons and Activities -- 5.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Resource Acquisition Risk and the Division of Labor: Austral Lessons for Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Theoretical Framework and Empirical Predictions -- 6.3 Explaining Variation Across Ethnographic Landscapes -- 6.3.1 When Men's Hunting Fails, Women's Work Dominates Production: Martu -- 6.3.2 When Men's Hunting Is Reliable, Their Labor Dominates Production: Alyawarre -- 6.4 Explaining Variation Across Ethnoarchaeological Landscapes -- 6.5 Explaining Variation Across Archaeological Landscapes -- 6.6 Summary and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Niche Construction and the Ideal Free Distribution: Partners in Characterizing Past Human-Environmental Dynamics -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Niche Construction and the Ideal Free Distribution -- 7.2.1 Discussion: A Question of Scale? Niches, Habitats, and Suitability -- 7.2.2 Niche Construction and Transhumance.
7.2.3 Transhumance, Niches, and the IFD -- 7.3 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Reconsidering the Amazonian Interfluvial Occupation -- 8.1 Amazonian Diversity -- 8.2 The Floodplain and the Interfluve -- 8.3 The Pardo River, Entering into an Interfluvial Zone -- 8.4 Excavations -- 8.5 Patterns -- 8.6 Discussion -- 8.7 Is There a Sociopolitical or Environmental Periphery in the Amazon? -- 8.8 The Interfluve as More Pristine? -- 8.9 Mobility and Long Distance Travel -- 8.10 A Vision Moving Forward -- References -- Chapter 9: Holocene Human Ecology and Adaptation to Millennial- and Centennial-Scale Climate Change: A Case Study from the North Sea Basin -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Coupling the Human System to the Natural System in the Southern North Sea Basin -- 9.2.1 The Natural System -- 9.2.2 The Human System -- 9.3 A Chronological Model for Diachronic Change in the RMS Mesolithic -- 9.4 A New Hypothesis for Mesolithic Adaptations to Environmental Change in the RMS Region -- 9.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Technological Changes in Lithic Reduction as a Chronological Indicator in Surface Artifact Scatters -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Late Palaeolithic -- 10.3 Early Mesolithic -- 10.4 Late Mesolithic -- 10.5 Research History -- 10.6 Discriminant Analysis -- 10.6.1 Chronologically Significant Variables -- 10.6.2 Training Samples -- 10.6.3 Survey Sites as New Cases to Be Classified -- 10.6.4 Analysis - Discriminant Analysis -- 10.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Neolithic Cultural Landscapes in Southwestern Germany: Exploring Contributions of Regional Survey -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Environmental and Archaeological Context of the Southwest German Neolithic -- 11.3 Plowzone Surveys: Methods and Survey Coverage -- 11.4 Geographic Setting and History of Research.
11.5 Distribution of Neolithic Archaeological Sites in and around the Study Areas -- 11.6 Exploring Potential of Plowzone Surveys: A Non-site Approach -- 11.7 Survey Results -- 11.7.1 Upper Swabian Study Area: Moraine Lowlands -- 11.7.2 Swabian Alb Study Area -- 11.7.3 Identifying Neolithic Materials in Surface Scatters -- 11.7.4 Low Density of Neolithic Finds in Upper Swabian Surveys -- 11.7.5 Neolithic Finds from Swabian Alb Surveys -- 11.8 Exploring Potential Contributions of Regional Survey in Southwest Germany -- 11.8.1 Neolithic Land Use Patterns in Comparison to Earlier Prehistoric Periods -- 11.8.2 Distribution of Neolithic Activities around Settlements -- 11.8.3 Directions for Future Research -- References -- Chapter 12: Neolithic and Bronze Age Bog Settlements in the Federsee Basin (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) -- 12.1 Environmental Context and State of Research -- 12.2 Houses, Settlement Types and Society -- 12.3 Mobility and Settlement Systems -- 12.4 Paths of Settlement, Fluctuations of the Lake Levels, Climatic and Economic Changes -- 12.5 Transformation of the Landscape -- 12.6 Final Discussion -- References -- Index.
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19th-century American women's novels : interpretive strategies / Susan K. Harris
