The Northwest Coast: Complex Hunter-Gatherers, Ecology, and Social Evolution

Engineered feature used to enhance gardening at a 3800-year-old site on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Humans use a variety of deliberate means to modify biologically rich environs in pursuit of resource stability and predictability. Empirical evidence suggests that ancient hunter-gatherer populations engineered ecological niches to enhance the productivity and availability of economically significant resources. An archaeological excavation of a 3800-year-old wetland garden in British Columbia, ...

Resource depression on the Northwest Coast of North America

Introduction A variety of evidence is accumulating from various parts of the world that suggests past human foragers greatly affected the animal and plant populations they were exploiting (Botkin 1980; Broughton 1997; Holdaway &. Jacomb 2000; Nagaoka 1998; Steadman 1995; Stiner et a1. 1999). Besides identifying prey response to human harvesting pressure, such studies also track ways human preda...

Untangling cultural inheritance: language diversity and long-house architecture on the Pacific northwest coast.

Many recent studies of cultural inheritance have focused on small-scale craft traditions practised by single individuals, which do not require coordinated participation by larger social collectives. In this paper, we address this gap in the cultural transmission literature by investigating diversity in the vernacular architecture of the Pacific northwest coast, where communities of hunter-fishe...

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Carbondale 15 . Delayed - Return Hunter - Gatherers in Africa ? Historic Perspectives

The material characteristics and past distribution of delayed­ return hunter-gatherers in Africa are investigated through ethnoarchae­ ological research among the Okiek and an archaeological study of the Kansyore. We recognize groups with delays in return but without hier­ archy as moderate delayed-return hlmter-gatherers. The Ownership Model, developed here, allows identification of such group...