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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Subsistence Strategies"”.
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Nutritional consequences of prehistoric subsistence strategies in lower Central America
This thesis presents new data on subsistence strategies and examines patterns of nutritional status of prehistoric populations that inhabited tropical coastal environments in lower Central America during the period from 5000 B.C. to A.D. 1550. The subsistence bases of archaeological populations are …
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Evidence of Climatic Influence on Subsistence Strategies at Sage Hen Springs, Nevada
… analysis of these data focusing on patterns of subsistence and mobility strategies throughout the Archaic. Results of this analysis support existing models of lifeways in the northwest Great Basin at the small scale and point to climatic factors as influences on the cultural shift in the latter …
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Fields and Forests: A Stable Isotope Perspective on the Subsistence Strategies of Past Amazonian Peoples
The subsistence strategies employed by the ancient peoples of the Amazon have been a fundamental and extensively debated topic since the inception of archaeological research in the region. Despite a general disagreement regarding carrying capacity and human development in past Amazonia, the initial …
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An Economic Approach to Modeling Archaeological Settlement Patterns in Central Idaho
Archaeologists can gain a better understanding of subsistence strategies by analyzing the net advantage of exploiting certain resources over others across a large area with the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and application of economic. GIS modeling is a powerful tool used by …
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Listen to the Bones: An Analysis of the Variation within the Faunal Remains at the Bridge River Site
… elements from deer remains suggests a change in subsistence strategies that were used to harvest theses animals. It is proposed that the variation that exists within the faunal assemblage can be explained by testing for specific subsistence strategies. The procurement of salmon as a food resource …
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Listen to the Bones: An Analysis of the Variation within the Faunal Remains at the Bridge River Site
… elements from deer remains suggests a change in subsistence strategies that were used to harvest theses animals. It is proposed that the variation that exists within the faunal assemblage can be explained by testing for specific subsistence strategies. The procurement of salmon as a food resource …
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Fishing, Farming, and Animal Husbandry in the Early and Middle Neolithic of the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
… and pig husbandry became the dominant mode of subsistence, suggesting a regional difference in subsistence strategies between the Wei River valley and the Central Plain.
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Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21st Century Chiapas
… ability to rely on maize farming and traditional subsistence strategies on the milpa (a type of multi-crop, cooperative growing field) have implications for the continuity of Maya spiritual practice. In recent years, Maya communities have struggled against free trade policies and federal …
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A systematic investigation of open station shell midden sites along the southwestern Cape Coast
… scope for coastal occupation. The . existence of subsistence strategies related to these differing conditions was to be explored through a study of the structure end composition of midden sites. Evidence for coastal/inland links and their meaning would be sought.
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Traditional Marine Management Systems in Northwest California: The Archaeology and Implications of Indigenous Stewardship Practices for Modern Marine Conservation and Restoration
… to cultural landscapes, involving integrated strategies of resource procurement and management designed to enhance and sustain the abundance, diversity, and accessibility of marine resources. Despite California being a major focus of archaeological research over the past century - with over …
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The music-archaeology of the Palaeolithic within its cultural setting.
… during the Aurignacian, as a reflection of subsistence strategies adopted by Palaeolithic groups - a mechanism which was to culminate in the advanced forms of the Magdalenian. The discussion focuses upon two major collections from the French sites of Isturitz and Le Placard, and explores how …
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Variability in Thule Inuit Subsistence Economy: A Faunal Analysis of OkRn-1, Banks Island, N.W.T.
… of the qarmaq; 3) assess change in Thule subsistence strategies on Banks Island over time; 4) identify similarities/differences between OkRn-1 and contemporary sites in the western Canadian Arctic. Ringed seal was the dietary staple of the qarmaq and Arctic fox were exploited for their …
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Ancestral Pharmacopeias: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Plant Use in the Western Free State, South Africa
… Southern Africa and how they relate to Stone Age subsistence strategies.
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Interpreting Prehistoric Patterns: Site Catchment Analysis in the Upper Trinity River Basin of North Central Texas
… valuable information regarding prehistoric subsistence strategies and social organization. Incorporating archaeological data into catchment analyses is an effective strategy to develop regional models of prehistoric site selection and settlement patterns. Digital access to data permits the …
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The Palenque mapping project: settlement and urbanism at an ancient Maya city
… density, population estimates and land use strategies are the primary topics of discussion. The degree of urbanism achieved at Palenque is also evaluated. Through comparison to other well-documented ancient Mesoamerican cities, Palenque is shown to have had an extremely high settlement …
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From Turkeys To Tamales: Paleoindian To Preclassic Period Faunal Use At Maya Hak Cab Pek Rockshelter In Southern Belize
… little is known about Paleoindian and Archaic subsistence strategies of the people of Mesoamerica prior to the development of ceramics. Rockshelters with good preservation and stratigraphic deposits can provide excellent contexts for a comparative faunal analysis though time. In February of …
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BON APPЀTIT: FAUNAL SUBSISTENCE AT FORT TOMBECBE (1SU7)
… and contrasts the French and British faunal subsistence strategies employed by those stationed at the fort as observed from the Bakery and soldiers’ Barracks contexts. My findings of analyzing faunal remains from these contexts shows that both French and British soldiers were forced to rely …
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Bioarchaeological Analysis of Oak View Landing (40Dr1): An Archaic Population in the Kentucky Lake Reservior
… people as they reflect sociopolitical and subsistence strategies.</p> <p>A comprehensive bioarchaeological analysis was conducted on the adult individuals (18 males, 16 females, 16 of indeterminate sex) excavated from a multiple occupation site located along the Tennessee River in Decatur …
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Nature and Culture in Prehistoric Amazonia : Using G.I.S. to reconstruct ancient ethnogenetic processes from archaeology, linguistics, geography, and ethnohistory
… debates on the role of migration, ecology, subsistence strategies, trade, language, and ethnicity in such processes, and offers new explanations of the distribution of language families and ethno-linguistic groups in Amazonia. The thesis focuses on one of the major linguistic expansions in …
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