Subsistence Change and Continuity in Southeast Asian Prehistory

This dissertation presents a model to explain why and how subsistence patterns change, particularly the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southeast Asia. The thesis of the dissertation is the following: People make changes in their subsistence pattern when they can obtain a greater, more reliable, or culturally more desirable food supply by changing their subsistence pattern. They change when they can obtain a significant advantage by doing so. They change when change presents the most viable alternative.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Thiel, Barbara Jean

• Anthropology, Archaeology

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8108685

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67575