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Broad spectrum diets and the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus): dietary change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Dordogne, southwestern France
(2004)
In the Dordogne region of southwestern France, a broadening of the diet is known to have occurred toward the end of the Pleistocene, with diets heavily dependent on large ungulates being replaced by those heavily dependent on smaller species, and in particular on the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). There are two main ...
Accounting for subsistence variation among maize farmers in Ohio valley prehistory
(2002)
Four different causes (climatic change, demographic structure, resource availability and technology, and social context) have been suggested to account for aspects of the appearance of and variation in maize-based farming systems of the Eastern, but they remain undeveloped and, for the most part, unevaluated. Here, I examine ...
Large mammal resource depression and agricultural intensification: an empirical test in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico
(2001)
Many archaeologists have argued that reductions in the energetic returns provided by wild resources led people in the past to devote more time to farming. Despite the popularity of this explanation, however, no one has tested the proposition that wild resource foraging efficiency declined in any archaeological case in which ...
Lithic raw material exploitation between 30,000 BP and 40,000 BP in the Perigord, France
(2002)
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition has been difficult to understand because of its vast scope. Yet, the issues might be solvable with more narrowly focused research. This dissertation tackles the question of whether lithic raw material exploitation (RME) changed significantly between 30,000 BP and 40,000 BP in the ...
Long-term interactions of climate, vegetation, humans, and fire in eastern Washington
(2002)
Modern ecological studies are unable to examine long-term processes operating on the order of hundreds of years. Because of the limited length of modern and historic records, questions about long-term interactions between people and the environment can only be answered using paleoecological and archaeological information. ...
Magic, morality and medicine: madness and medical pluralism in Java
(2007)
Javanese language and culture privilege the notions of order and disorder, act to preserve hierarchy and promote social harmony. Mental and physical illness are often diagnosed as the result of disturbances to order, insult to propriety, and may be a result of pressure on the individual to preserve social harmony. Vulnerable ...