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Title

Fisher-hunter-gatherer complexity in North America / edited by Christina Perry Sampson ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2023]

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Additional Authors

• Sampson, Christina Perry
• Thompson, Victor D.
• Fitzpatrick, Scott M.

Description

xiii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book explores the forms and trajectories of social complexity among fisher-hunter-gatherers who lived in coastal, estuarine, and riverine settings in pre-Columbian North America"--
• "Demonstrating the wide variation among complex hunter-gatherer communities in coastal settingsThis book explores the forms and trajectories of social complexity among fisher-hunter-gatherers who lived in coastal, estuarine, and riverine settings in pre-Columbian North America. Through case studies from several different regions and intellectual traditions, the contributors to this volume collectively demonstrate remarkable variation in the circumstances and histories of complex hunter-gatherers in maritime environments.The volume draws on archaeological research from the North Pacific and Alaska, the Pacific Northwest coast and interior, the California Channel Islands, and the Southeastern U.S. and Florida. Essays trace complex social configurations through monumentality, ceremonialism, territoriality, community organization, and trade and exchange. They show that while factors such as boat travel, patterns of marine and riverine resource availability, and sedentism and village formation are common unifying threads across the continent, these factors manifest in historically contingent ways in different contexts.Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in North America offers specific, substantive examples of change and transformation in these communities, emphasizing the wide range of complexity among them. It considers the use of the term "complex hunter-gatherer" and what these case studies show about the value and limitations of the concept, adding nuance to an ongoing conversation in the field. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson and Scott M. Fitzpatrick"--

Series Statement

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology

Uniform Title

Society and ecology in island and coastal archaeology.

Subject

• Hunting and gathering societies > North America
• Maritime anthropology > North America
• Excavations (Archaeology) > North America
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Hunting and gathering societies
• Maritime anthropology
• North America > History
• North America

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Christina Perry Sampson -- Social Change and the Construction of Landscapes in the Salish Sea / Colin Grier -- Ethnography and the Interpretation of Ancient Sociopolitical Structure in the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia / Anna Marie Prentiss, Alexandra Williams-Larson, and Ashley Hampton -- Unanga{.x} Complexity in the Rat Islands, Alaska / Caroline Funk, Bobbi Hornbeck, and Ariel Taivalkoski -- Regional Histories of Craft and Exchange on the Central Peninsular Gulf Coast of Florida / Christina Perry Sampson -- Selfish for Shellfish? Magnanimous about Mollusks? The Transformation of Cooperation across the First Millennium AD at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA / Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Victor D. Thompson, J. Matthew Compton, C. Trevor Duke, and Isabelle H. Lulewicz -- Late Holocene Sociopolitical Complexity and Changes in Archaeological Patterns at Secondary Settlement Locations on California?s Northern Channel Islands / Scott D. Sunell and Christopher S. Jazwa -- Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity on California?s Channel Islands: Feasting, Ceremonialism, and the Ritual Economy / Mikael Fauvelle and Jennifer E. Perry -- Envisioning Variations in Complexity among Complex Hunter-Gatherers / Tristram R. Kidder

Call Number

GN388

ISBN

• 9780813069647
• 0813069645
• 9780813070384 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2022051291
• 40031715208

OCLC

• on1346067983
• 1346067983
• SCSB-14498644

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries