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Humans and the environment : new archaeological perspectives for the twenty-first century /

The environment has always been a central concept for archaeologists and, although it has been conceived in many ways, its role in archaeological explanation has fluctuated from a mere backdrop to human action, to a primary factor in the understanding of society and social change. Archaeology also h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davies, M. I. J., 1981- (Editor ), M'Mbogori, Freda Nkirote (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Environment in North American and European archaeology / Matthew I.J. Davies
  • Environment in Soviet and post-Soviet archaeology / Olena V. Smyntyna
  • Indigeneity of past landscape transformations of the tropics / William Balée
  • Forced moves or just good moves? : rethinking environmental decision-making among East African intensive cultivators / Matthew I.J. Davies
  • Is the 'environment' good to eat or good to paint? : faunal consumption and avoidance among hunter-gatherer-fishers in the Beagle Channel Region (Tierra del Fuego, South America) / Dánae Fiore, Angélica Tivoli, Atilio Francisco Zangrando
  • From ecological constraints to cultural identities : pre-Columbian attitudes toward food / Alexandre Chevalier
  • Burning the bush : the development of Australia's southwest botanical province / Fiona Kost
  • Archaeology's potential to contribute to pools of agronomic knowledge : a case of applied agro-archaeology in the Bolivian Yungas / Christian Isendahl, Walter Sánchez, Sergio Calla, Marco Irahola, Dagner Salvatierra, Marcelo Ticona
  • Applied archaeology in the Andes : the contribution of pre-Hispanic agricultural terracing to environmental and rural development strategies / Ann Kendall
  • The role of agricultural and environmental history in East African developmental discourse / Daryl Stump
  • Past and present farming : changes in terms of engagement / Kristin Armstrong Oma
  • An inheritance of loss : archaeology's imagination of disaster / Karen Holmberg
  • Nature, identity, and disaster : prehistoric lake dwelling in Central Europe / Katherine Leckie
  • Memories and expectations of environmental disaster : some lessons from the Marshall Islands / Peter Rudiak-Gould
  • Climate change and cultural dynamics : lessons from the past for the future / David G. Anderson, Kirk A. Maasch, Daniel H. Sandweiss
  • Archaeology and environmental anthropology : collaborations in historical and political ecology / James Fairhead
  • The archaeology of global environment change / Carole L. Crumley
  • Humanized environments / Chris Gosden.