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

2011 ed.

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1441982183
ISBN-13 9781441982186
Edition 2011 ed.
Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 27th, 2011
Print length 498 Pages
Weight 900 grams
Dimensions 23.70 x 16.40 x 3.50 cms
Ksh 36,000.00
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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.

Introduction.

Trekking the shore, harvesting the sea: changing coastlines and the antiquity of coastal settlement. Nuno Bicho, Jonathan Haws and Loren G. Davis

Part I: North America and Eurasia

Chapter 1. The North American Paleocoastal Concept Reconsidered. Loren Davis

Chapter 2. Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater: A Nascent Subdiscipline Critical to Understanding Early Coastal Occupations and Migration Routes. Amy Gusick and Michael Faught

Chapter 3. Early Environments and Archaeology of Coastal British Columbia. Quentin Mackie, Daryl Fedje, Duncan McLaren, Nicole Smith and Iain McKechnie

Chapter 4. Blessing the Salmon: Archaeological Evidences of the Transition to Intensive Fishing in the Final Paleolithic, Maritime Region, Russian Far East. Andrei V. Tabarev

Chapter 5. Early Technological Organization along the Eastern Pacific Rim of the New World: A co-continental view. Samuel C. Willis and Matthew Des Lauriers

Chapter 6. Technology, mobility, and adaptation among early foragers of the southern Northwest Coast: The view from Indian Sands, southern Oregon coast, USA. Loren G. Davis and Samuel C. Willis

Chapter 7. Of Clams and Clovis: Isla Cedros, Baja California, Mexico. Matt Des Lauriers

Chapter 8. Changes in the molluscan exploitation patterns during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene in the eastern Cantabria (Spain). F. Igor Gutiérrez Zugasti

Chapter 9. Paleolithic seascapes along the west coast of Portugal. Jonathan Haws, Caroline L. Funk, Michael B. Benedetti, Nuno F. Bicho, J. Michael Daniels, Thomas A. Minckley, Rhawn F. Denniston, Marjeta Jeraj, Juan F. Gibaja and Bryan S. Hockett

Chapter 10. Small-game and marine resource exploitation by Neanderthals: The evidence from Gibraltar. Kimberly Brown, Darren A. Fa, Geraldine Finlayson and Clive Finlayson

Chapter 11. Prying new meaning from limpet harvesting at Vale Boi during the Upper Paleolithic. Tiina Manne and Nuno Bicho

Chapter 12. Surf and Turf: The use of marine and terrestrial resources in the Early Neolithic of costal southern Portugal. Rebecca Dean and António Carvalho

Part II: South America, Africa and Oceania

Chapter 13. Sea lions and human populations in Southern Patagonia, Sebastián Muñoz

Chapter 14. The Use of the Space in Pampean Atlantic Coast (Argentina, South America): A Comparative View, Mariano Bonomo

Chapter 15. Coastal Resources and the Early Holocene Las Vegas Adaptation of Ecuador. Karen Stothert

Chapter 16. Initial investigations into the exploitation of coastal resources in North Africa during the Late Pleistocene at Grotte des Contrebandiers, Morocco. Teresa Steele and Esteban Álvarez-Fernández.

Chapter 17. Shellfishing and the interpretation of shellfish sizes in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of South Africa. Judith Sealy and Mariagrazia Galimberti

Chapter 18. Coastal South Africa and the co-evolution of the modern human lineage and coastal adaptations. Curtis W. Marean

Chapter 19. Coastal Foragers on Southern Shores: Marine Resource Use in Northeast Australia since the Late Pleistocene. Sean Ulm

Chapter 20. The role of marine resources in the diet of pre-colonial Aboriginal people and land use patterns around Port Jackson, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Val Attenbrow


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