Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement

Einband
Hardback
Autor(en)
Bicho, Nuno F.; Haws, Jonathan A.; Davis, Loren G.
Verlag
Springer, Berlin
Ausgabe
2011
Formatangaben
498 pages; XXX, 498 p.; 243 x 162 mm
Sprache
eng
ISBN
1441982183
ISBN-13 / EAN
9781441982186
Reihe / Serie
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Schlagworte
BSR, Shell Middens, Holocene Archaeology, Human Ecology, Hunter-Gatherers, Ice Age, Landscape Archaeology, Paleolithic Archaeology, Broad Spectrum Revolution model
Preis
EUR 246,09 (inkl. MwSt.)
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Trekking the Shore

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.

From the reviews:

"Trekking the Shore is a welcome addition to the literature on the archaeology of coastal adaptations and the challenges involved in discovering and interpreting early coastal sites given the vagaries of Quaternary sea level changes, shifting shorelines, and coastal erosion. ... The book does an admirable job of that-virtually every chapter explicitly recognizing the importance of situating sites and assemblages within the dynamic landscapes and seascapes in which people lived." (Jon M. Erlandson, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 68, 2012)

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