Environmental change and human adaptation in the ancient American Southwest / edited by David E. Doyel and Jeffrey S. Dean ; contributors, Julio L. Betancourt [and others].

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
Other Authors: Doyel, David E. (David Elmond), 1946-
Dean, Jeffrey S., 1939-
Betancourt, Julio L.
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities.
Lithic people > Southwest, New.
Human ecology > Southwest, New > History.
Paleoecology > Southwest, New.
New Southwest > Antiquities.
Physical Description:xvi, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Culture, environment, and adaptation : perspectives from the ancient Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean and David E. Doyel
  • Early people, early maize, and late archaic ecology in the Southwest / Alan H. Simmons
  • Prehistoric human response to landscape change in the American Southwest / Michael R. Waters
  • Cross-cultural perspectives on prehispanic Hohokam agricultural potential / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish
  • Long-term streamflow reconstructions, river channel morphology, and aboriginal irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila rivers / Donald A. Graybill ... [et al.]
  • Subsistence management strategies in the grasshopper region, east-central Arizona / J. Jefferson Reid, Donald A. Graybill, and Ann Clair Seiferle-Valencia
  • Settlement history and environmental variability in the upper Little Colorado River Valley, Arizona / David E. Doyel
  • Subsistence stress and food storage at Kiet Siel, northeastern Arizona / Jeffrey S. Dean
  • The effects of environmental fluctuations on ancient livelihoods : implications of paleoeconomic evidence from the Upper Basin, northern Arizona / Alan P. Sullivan III and Anthony H. Ruter
  • Environmental variation and prehistoric culture in the Mimbres area, southwestern New Mexico / Darrell Creel
  • Tree rings, drought, and the pueblo abandonment of south-central New Mexico in the 1670s / James A. Parks, Jeffrey S. Dean, and Julio L. Betancourt
  • Sky as environment : solar eclipses and Hohokam culture change / W. Bruce Masse and Fred Espenak
  • The resurgence of the co-evolution of human and natural landscape studies in the American Southwest / George J. Gumerman.