Environmental Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780874808537)

Archaeology provides an ideal avenue for examining long-term processes and interrelationships between human behavior and environmental stability, variation, and change. The American Southwest is particularly well suited for such 'deep-time' investigations because of its comprehensive archaeological record, rich ethnographic and historical data on its peoples, and unmatched reconstructions of multiple environmental variables across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales.
This volume contains a varied and instructive set of studies of human behavioral adaptation to environmental change in the ancient Southwest. It makes significant contributions to southwestern prehistory, settlement pattern studies, agriculture, behavioral ecology, paleo-environmental reconstruction, and statistical and computer-aided modeling. The mix of case studies and syntheses covers the Colorado Plateau, Sonoran Desert, Mogollon Highlands, and Rio Grande Valley and summarizes the work of some of the leading researchers in the region.

Author: David E. Doyel
ISBN-10: 0874808537
ISBN-13: 9780874808537
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 359
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.22w x 0.99d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 66