Author: PAUL EDWARD MINNISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
to the collapse of the Classic Mimbres period cultural system.
ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO FOOD STRESS BY NON-STRATIFIED SOCIETIES: AN EXAMPLE FROM PREHISTORIC NEW MEXICO.
Author: PAUL EDWARD MINNISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
to the collapse of the Classic Mimbres period cultural system.
ECONOMIC AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO FOOD STRESS BY NON-STRATIFIED SOCIETIES: AN EXAMPLE FROM PREHISTORIC NEW MEXICO.
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
to the collapse of the Classic Mimbres period cultural system.
Social Adaptation to Food Stress
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226530248
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Combining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe Tonga of South Africa. Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages, nonstratified societies survive by employing a series of responses that are increasingly effective but also are increasingly costly and demand increasingly larger cooperative efforts. The model Minnis develops allows him to infer, from evidence of such factors as population size, resource productivity, and climate change, the occurrence of food crises in the past. Using the Classic Mimbres society as a test case, he summarizes the regional archeological sequence and analyzes the effects of environmental fluctuations on economic and social organization. He concludes that the responses of the Mimbres people to their burgeoning population were inadequate to prevent the collapse of the society in the late twelfth century. In its illumination of the general issue of responses to food shortages, Social Adaptation to Food Stress will interest not only archeologists but also those concerned with current food shortages in the Third World. Cultural ecologists and human geographers will be able to derive a wealth of ideas, methods, and data from Minnis's work.
Famine Foods
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816542252
Category : HOUSE & HOME
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
How people eat today is a record of food use through the ages, and Famine Foods offers the first ever overview of the use of alternative foods during food shortages. Paul E. Minnis explores the unusual plants that have helped humanity survive throughout history.
Issues in Environmental Archaeology
Author: Nicholas BalaamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315425874
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Collection of original research articles by European scholars assessing the state of environmental archaeology and its relationship to the field; along with discussions on how to present environmental issues in prehistory to the public.
Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest
Author: Joseph A. TainterPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429961138
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
The Great New Wilderness Debate
Author: J. Baird CallicottPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820319848
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The Great New Wilderness Debate is an expansive, wide-ranging collection that addresses the pivotal environmental issues of the modern era. This eclectic volume on the varied constructions of “wilderness” reveals the recent controversies that surround those conceptions, and the gulf between those who argue for wilderness "preservation" and those who argue for "wise use." J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson have selected thirty-nine essays that provide historical context, range broadly across the issues, and set forth the positions of the debate. Beginning with such well-known authors as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, the collection moves forward to the contemporary debate and presents seminal works by a number of the most distinguished scholars in environmental history and environmental philosophy. The Great New Wilderness Debate also includes essays by conservation biologists, cultural geographers, environmental activists, and contemporary writers on the environment.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Prehistoric Food Production in North America
Author: Richard I. FordPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
As Richard I. Ford explains in his preface to this volume, the 1980s saw an “explosive expansion of our knowledge about the variety of cultivated and domesticated plants and their history in aboriginal America.” This collection presents research on prehistoric food production from Ford, Patty Jo Watson, Frances B. King, C. Wesley Cowan, Paul E. Minnis, and others.
HISTORIES OF MAIZE
Author: John StallerPublisher: Left Coast Press
ISBN: 1598744623
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date.