Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Islands of Resilience: Persistence, Adaptation, and Sustainability in Ancient Island Societies
Jon M. Erlandson, Scott M. Fitzpatrick, and Kristina M. Gill

Chapter 2. Island of Hope: Archaeology, Historical Ecology, and Human Resilience on California’s Tuqan Island
Jon M. Erlandson, Todd J. Braje, Kristina M. Gill, and Torben C. Rick

Chapter 3. Long-Term Perspectives on Sustainability, Resilience, and Change on the Island of Barbuda
Sophia Perdikaris, Sandrine Grouard, Rebecca Boger, Allison Bain, Anaëlle Jallon, Edith Gonzalez, and Emira Ibrahimpasic

Chapter 4. Agricultural History, Deforestation, and Cultural Survival in the Highlands of New Guinea
Tim Denham

Chapter 5. Archaeology and the Emergence of Customary Resource Management in Southern Vanuatu
James L. Flexner, Stuart Bedford, Frédérique Valentin, Robert N. Williams, Mark Horrocks, Iarowai Philip, Denise Elena, and Takaronga Kuautonga

Chapter 6. The Function of Prehistoric Agricultural Systems in Sāmoa: A GIS Analysis of Resilience to Flooding
Craig H. Shapiro and Julie S. Field

Chapter 7. Tidal Stone-Walled Fish Weirs across Asia-Pacific: An Austronesian Cultural Identity and Its Relevance in Marine Ecology Conservation
Bill Jeffery

Chapter 8. The Historical Ecology of Native American Sustainability on the Georgia Coast
Lindsey E. Cochran and Victor D. Thompson

Chapter 9. Culture on the Rock(s): Maritime Archaic Resilience, Sustainability, and Abandonment on the Island of Newfoundland
Christopher B. Wolff

Chapter 10. Norse Persistence and Resilience in Iceland: Conservatism and Innovation on an Island of Oppositional Environmental Paradoxes
Davide Zori and Jon M. Erlandson

Chapter 11. Island Engineers, Engineering Islands: Ancient Artificial Landforms, Sunk-Cost Economics, and the Rise of the Seasteading Phenomenon
Scott M. Fitzpatrick and Victor D. Thompson

Chapter 12. Islands as Nodes of Human Resilience and Persistence
Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Kristina M. Gill, and Jon M. Erlandson

List of Contributors

Index