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  title info:
    title: Trekking the Shore
    sub title: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement
  name:
    name part: Bicho, Nuno F.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Haws, Jonathan A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Davis, Loren G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXX, 498 p. online resource.
  abstract: Human settlement has often centered around coastal areas and waterways. Until recently, however, archaeologists believed that marine economies did not develop until the end of the Pleistocene, when the archaeological record begins to have evidence of marine life as part of the human diet. This has long been interpreted as a postglacial adaptation, due to the rise in sea level and subsequent decrease in terrestrial resources. Coastal resources, particularly mollusks, were viewed as fallback resources, which people resorted to only when terrestrial resources were scarce, included only as part of a more complex diet. Recent research has significantly altered this understanding, known as the Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) model. The contributions to this volume revise the BSR model, with evidence that coastal resources were an important part of human economies and subsistence much earlier than previously thought, and even the main focus of diets for some Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies. With evidence from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, this volume comprehensively lends a new understanding to coastal settlement from the Middle Paleolithic to the Middle Holocene.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Trekking the shore, harvesting the sea changing coastlines and the antiquity of coastal settlement -- Part I: North America and Eurasia. The North American Paleocoastal Concept Reconsidered -- Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater: A Nascent Subdiscipline Critical to Understanding Early Coastal Occupations and Migration Routes -- Early Environments and Archaeology of Coastal British Columbia -- Blessing the Salmon: Archaeological Evidences of the Transition to Intensive Fishing in the Final Paleolithic, Maritime Region, Russian Far East -- Early Technological Organization along the Eastern Pacific Rim of the New World: A co-continental view -- Technology, mobility, and adaptation among early foragers of the southern Northwest Coast: The view from Indian Sands, southern Oregon coast, USA -- Of Clams and Clovis: Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico -- Changes in the molluscan exploitation patterns during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene in the eastern Cantabria (Spain) -- Paleolithic seascapes along the west coast of Portugal -- Small-game and marine resource exploitation by Neanderthals: The evidence from Gibraltar -- Prying new meaning from limpet harvesting at Vale Boi during the Upper Paleolithic -- Surf and Turf: The use of marine and terrestrial resources in the Early Neolithic of costal southern Portugal -- Part II: South America, Africa and Oceania -- Sea lions and human populations in Southern Patagonia -- The Use of the Space in Pampean Atlantic Coast (Argentina, South America): A Comparative View -- Coastal Resources and the Early Holocene Las Vegas Adaptation of Ecuador -- Initial investigations into the exploitation of coastal resources in North Africa during the Late Pleistocene at Grotte des Contrebandiers, Morocco -- Shellfishing and the interpretation of shellfish sizes in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of South Africa -- Coastal South Africa and the co-evolution of the modern human lineage and coastal adaptations -- Coastal Forag…
  note: edited by Nuno F. Bicho, Jonathan A. Haws, Loren G. Davis.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: CC1-960
  classification: 930.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
  identifier: 9781441982193
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8219-3
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    record creation date: 110518
    record change date: 20150519192813.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4419-8219-3