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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"resource intensification"”.
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ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL MEASURES OF RESOURCE INTENSIFICATION AND DEPLETION: EXAMPLES FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… increased human population size and agricultural intensification had on the prehistoric animal ecology of eastern North America is poorly understood. New methods for examining archaeologically recovered faunal remains permit a more detailed understanding of the interaction between humans and their …
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Determination of Site Functionality and Subsistence Patterns at the Bray Archaeological Site (45PI1276) in Edgewood, Washington
Resource intensification, or the logistical approach to the mass capture and extension of food resources through storage, is first evident for marine resources of the Northwest Coast during the Locarno Beach Phase (LBP) (ca. 3,500 BP to ca. 2,400 BP). Plant resource intensification is evident by …
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Comparing a Surface Collection to an Excavated Collection in the Lower Skagit River Delta at 45SK51
… shift are interpreted with a concept known as resource intensification. This shift in artifact frequencies has been studied only in the last thirty years and in limited areas of the Puget Sound Lowlands. An opportunity to investigate a site dating to after the shift presented itself when …
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Interactions between a changing agricultural landscape and regional trade
… of the increasing agricultural trade, that is, resource intensification and the resulting environmental damages. We empirically analyze the relationship between important driving factors including land use specialization and intensification of production, and investigate the internalization of …
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Archaeobotanical and palaeoecological assessment of three freshwater shell middens dating to the early Holocene, Yongjiang River, Guangxi, southern China
… at each site is suggestive of human-directed resource intensification of palms in the landscape. The starch grains from the three shell midden sites can be classified into four major types, including Fagaceae, Poacea, USOs and unknown taxa (may include some nuts). The relative abundance of …
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Archaeobotanical and palaeoecological assessment of three freshwater shell middens dating to the early Holocene, Yongjiang River, Guangxi, southern China
… at each site is suggestive of human-directed resource intensification of palms in the landscape. The starch grains from the three shell midden sites can be classified into four major types, including Fagaceae, Poacea, USOs and unknown taxa (may include some nuts). The relative abundance of …