Human impacts on ancient marine ecosystems : a global perspective

Human impacts on ancient marine ecosystems : a global perspective / edited by Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson.

"Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed - more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a state of crisis, coastal archaeological sites contain a wealth of data tha...

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Other Authors: Rick, Torben C., Erlandson, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Coastal archaeology > Case studies.
Underwater archaeology > Case studies.
Prehistoric peoples.
Fishing, Prehistoric.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Marine mammals > Effect of human beings on.
Marine mammal remains (Archaeology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Coastal archaeology
Fishing, Prehistoric
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Prehistoric peoples
Underwater archaeology
dissertations.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Archaeology, marine ecology, and human impacts on marine environments / Jon M. Erlandson and Torben C. Rick
  • Short and sometimes sharp : human impacts on marine resources in the archaeology and history of South Polynesia / Atholl Anderson
  • Aleut hunters, sea otters, and sea cows : three thousand years of interactions in the western Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Debra G. Corbett [and others]
  • Historical ecology and human impacts on coastal ecosystems of the Santa Barbara Channel region, California / Torben C. Rick [and others]
  • Long-term effects of human predation on marine ecosystems in Guerrero, Mexico / Douglas J. Kennett [and others]
  • Ancient fisheries and marine ecology of coastal Peru / Elizabeth J. Reitz, C. Fred T. Andrus, and Daniel H. Sandweiss
  • Human impacts on marine environments in the West Indies during the Middle to Late Holocene / Scott M. Fitzpatrick, William F. Keegan, and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey
  • Possible prehistoric fishing effects on coastal marine food webs in the Gulf of Maine / Bruce J. Bourque, Beverly J. Johnson, and Robert S. Steneck
  • Codfish and kings, seals and subsistence : Norse marine resource use in the North Atlantic / Sophia Perdikaris and Thomas H. McGovern
  • Historical ecology of the North Sea Basin : an archaeological perspective and some problems of methodology / Geoff Bailey [and others]
  • Twenty thousand years of fishing in the strait : archaeological fish and shellfish assemblages from southern Iberia / Arturo Morales-Muñiz and Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo
  • Human impact on precolonial West Coast marine environments of South Africa / Antonieta Jerardino, George M. Branch, and Rene Navarro
  • Archaeology, historical ecology, and the future of ocean ecosystems / Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson.

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