Environmental change and human adaptation in the ancient American Southwest
By: edited by David E. Doyel and Jeffrey S. Dean ; contributors, Julio L. Betancourt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Doyel, David E. 1946-; Dean, Jeffrey S., 1939-; Betancourt, Julio L.; Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780874808537
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities.; Paleo-Indians -- Southwest, New.; Human ecology -- Southwest, New -- History.; Paleoecology -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- Antiquities.
Notes: Chiefly revisions of papers presented at a symposium held at the 1996 Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture, environment, and adaptation : perspectives from the ancient Southwest / Jeffrey S. Dean and David E. Doyel; title: Early people, early maize, and late archaic ecology in the Southwest / Alan H. Simmons; title: Prehistoric human response to landscape change in the American Southwest / Michael R. Waters; title: Cross-cultural perspectives on prehispanic Hohokam agricultural potential / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish; title: Long-term streamflow reconstructions, river channel morphology, and aboriginal irrigation systems along the Salt and Gila rivers / Donald A. Graybill ... [et al.]; title: Subsistence management strategies in the grasshopper region, east-central Arizona / J. Jefferson Reid, Donald A. Graybill, and Ann Clair Seiferle-Valencia; title: Settlement history and environmental variability in the upper Little Colorado River Valley, Arizona / David E. Doyel; title: Subsistence stress and food storage at Kiet Siel, northeastern Arizona / Jeffrey S. Dean; title: 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; title: Environmental variation and prehistoric culture in the Mimbres area, southwestern New Mexico / Darrell Creel; title: 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; title: Sky as environment : solar eclipses and Hohokam culture change / W. Bruce Masse and Fred Espenak; title: The resurgence of the co-evolution of human and natural landscape studies in the American Southwest / George J. Gumerman.