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Effects of Ecological and Paleoecological Patterns on Subsistence and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frances B. King  and
Russell W. Graham
Frances B. King
Affiliation:
Quaternary Studies Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 1L 62706
Russell W. Graham
Affiliation:
Quaternary Studies Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 62706
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Abstract

Spatial and temporal variations in human populations are, to a large extent, determined by the environmentally controlled distribution of biotic and abiotic resources. While archaeologists generally recognize this relationship, many fail to fully appreciate the complexity of either the changing environment, the ecological literature, or applications of ecological data to archaeological problems. It is important to apply modern ecological principles to archaeological problems, but the novelty of the principle should not preclude the nature of the problem to be solved. For example, the concepts of ecotone and edge effect are still applicable to archaeological problems concerning biotic boundaries such as those between forest and grassland even though it may be more appropriate to use an individualistic approach in research designs concerned with diffuse environmental and biotic gradients.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 128 - 142
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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