Human Behavioral Ecology and Coastal Environments

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Foreword

Preface
Douglas J. Kennett

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins
Heather B. Thakar, Carola Flores Fernandez, and Shannon Tushingham

Part 1. Regional Overviews

Chapter 1. Human Behavioral Ecology and the Complexities of Arctic Environments
Catherine F. West, Erik Gjesfjeld, Shelby Anderson, and Ben Fitzhugh

Chapter 2. Aquatic Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers: Evolutionary Frameworks in Northeast Pacific Rim Archaeology
Shannon Tushingham

Chapter 3. Potential Applications of Human Behavioral Ecology in the Prehistoric Mediterranean
Daniel Plekhov, Evan Levine, and Thomas P. Leppard

Part 2. Local Case Studies

Chapter 4. Human Niche Construction and Shifts in Subsistence and Settlement during the Early Formative in the Eastern Soconusco Mangrove Zone
James T. Daniels Jr., Heather B. Thakar, and Hector Neff

Chapter 5. Swordfish Hunting as Prestige Signaling? A Case Study from Middle Holocene Fishing Communities of the Atacama Desert Coast
Carola Flores Fernandez and Laura Olguin

Chapter 6. Eighteenth-Century Shipbuilding and Forestry Management: Assessing the Impacts of Resource Intensification in Southwestern France
Marijo Gauthier-Berube and Heather B. Thakar

Chapter 7. What Makes a Forager Turn Coastal? An Agent-Based Approach to Coastal Foraging on the Paleoscape of South Africa
Colin D. Wren, Marco A. Janssen, Kim Hill, and Curtis W. Marean

Chapter 8. Evaluating Mid- to Late Holocene Economic Intensification through Analysis of a Mollusk Assemblage on the Tropical North Australian Coast
Martin Wright, Patrick Faulkner, and Michael Westaway

Chapter 9. Application of the Ideal Free Distribution Model to Pacific Island Settlement Patterns: A Case Study from Tutuila Island, American Sāmoa
Alex E. Morrison, Robert J. DiNapoli, Melinda S. Allen, and Timothy M. Rieth

Conclusion. Advances in Current Theoretical Approaches to Coastal Archaeology
Heather B. Thakar and Carola Flores Fernandez

List of Contributors

Index