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Complex Hunter Gatherers : Evolution Organization of Prehistoric Communities Plateau of Northwestern NA
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ISBN: 1607817934 9781607817932 9780874809244 087480924X 087480793X Year: 2004 Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press,

Survival by hunting : prehistoric human predators and animal prey
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ISBN: 1282356224 9786612356223 0520927966 9780520927964 9780520231900 0520231902 9781282356221 6612356227 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years. Noted archaeologist George Frison brings a lifetime of experience as a hunter, rancher, and guide to bear on excavation data from the region relating to hunting, illuminating prehistoric hunting practices in entirely new ways. Sharing his intimate knowledge of animal habitats and behavior and his familiarity with hunting strategies and techniques, Frison argues that this kind of firsthand knowledge is crucial for understanding hunting in the past.

Prehistoric native Americans and ecological change : human ecosystems in eastern North America since the Pleistocene
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ISBN: 0511525524 0521050766 0521662702 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book shows that Holocene human ecosystems are complex adaptive systems in which humans interacted with their environment in a nested series of spatial and temporal scales. Using panarchy theory, it integrates paleoecological and archaeological research from the Eastern Woodlands of North America providing a paradigm to help resolve long-standing disagreements between ecologists and archaeologists about the importance of prehistoric Native Americans as agents for ecological change. The authors present the concept of a panarchy of complex adaptive cycles as applied to the development of increasingly complex human ecosystems through time. They explore examples of ecological interactions at the level of gene, population, community, landscape and regional hierarchical scales, emphasizing the ecological pattern and process involving the development of human ecosystems. Finally, they offer a perspective on the implications of the legacy of Native Americans as agents of change for conservation and ecological restoration efforts today.

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Biotic communities --- Indigenous peoples --- Nature --- Paleoecology --- Paleo-Indians --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Archaeobotanical assemblages --- Archaeobotanical material --- Archaeobotanical remains --- Archaeobotany --- Archaeological plant remains --- Archaeology, Botanical --- Assemblages, Archaeobotanical --- Botanical archaeology --- Botany in archaeology --- Material, Archaeobotanical --- Phytoarchaeology --- Remains, Archaeobotanical --- Remains, Plant (Archaeology) --- Remains, Vegetal (Archaeology) --- Vegetal remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Paleobotany --- Anthracology --- Paleo-Americans --- Paleo-Amerinds --- Paleoamericans --- Paleoamerinds --- Paleoindians --- Stone age --- Indians --- Prehistoric peoples --- Holocene Epoch --- Late Quaternary Period --- Postglacial Epoch --- Recent Epoch --- Effect of human beings on --- Methodology --- East (U.S.) --- Eastern States (U.S.) --- Eastern United States --- United States, Eastern --- Antiquities. --- Life Sciences --- General and Others --- Ethnoecology --- Indiens du paléolithique --- Autochtones --- Homme --- Restes de plantes (Archéologie) --- Paléoécologie --- Ecosystèmes --- Ecologie --- Influence sur la nature --- Etats-Unis (Est) --- Antiquités

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