Sustainable Lifeways : Cultural Persistence in an Ever-Changing Environment /

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Sustainable Lifeways addresses forces of conservatism and innovation in societies dependent on the exploitation of aquatic and other wild resources, agriculture, and specialized pastoralism. The volume gathers specialists working in four areas of the world with significant archaeological and paleoen...

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Otros Autores: Arco, Lee (Contribuidor), Beck, Lois (Contribuidor), Bruno, Maria C. (Contribuidor), Grillo, Katherine (Contribuidor), Huang, Julia (Contribuidor), Ingram, Scott (Contribuidor), Kohler, Timothy A. (Contribuidor), Marshall, Fiona (Contribuidor), Miller, Naomi F. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Moore, Katherine M. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Munene, Karega (Contribuidor), Nelson, Margaret (Contribuidor), Peeples, Matthew A. (Contribuidor), Reed, Charles (Contribuidor), Roberts, Neil (Contribuidor), Rosen, Arlene M. (Contribuidor), Ryan, Kathleen (Contribuidor, Editor ), Spielmann, Katherine A. (Contribuidor), Stahl, Peter W. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
Temas:
Sustainable living > Cross-cultural studies > Congresses.
Folklore.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Ancient Studies.
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Linguistics.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Penn Museum International Research Conferences. Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Sustainable Lifeways
  • 1. "Living with a Moving Target": Long-term Climatic Variability and Environmental Risk in Dryland Regions
  • 2. Prehistoric Pastoralists and Social Responses to Climatic Risk in East Africa
  • 3. Spreading Risk in Risky Environments: An East African Example
  • 4. Risk and Resilience among Contemporary Pastoralists in Southwestern Iran
  • 5. Change and Stability in an Uncertain Environment: Foraging Strategies in the Levant from the Early Natufian through the Beginning of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
  • 6. Explaining the Structure and Timing of Formation of Pueblo I Villages in the Northern U.S. Southwest
  • 7. Mitigating Environmental Risk in the U.S. Southwest
  • 8. Farmers' Experience and Knowledge: Utilizing Soil Diversity to Mitigate Rainfall Variability on the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia
  • 9. Grace Under Pressure: Responses to Changing Environments by Herders and Fishers in the Formative Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia
  • 10. Periodic Volcanism, Persistent Landscapes, and the Archaeofaunal Record in the Jama Valley of Western Ecuador
  • 11. Managing Predictable Unpredictability: Agricultural Sustainability at Gordion, Turkey
  • Index

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