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Environmental change and developmental history of human adaptive patterns; The Paleoindian case

Robson Bonnichsen · Dennis J. Stanford · J. L. Fastook

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Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Abstract

Could environmental change be the cause underlying the origin, internal restructuring, and extinction of human adaptive patterns? Recent syntheses in the Quaternary sciences present an opportunity to investigate the linkages and changes in the internal dynamics among the earth's climatic, glaciologic, geologic, oceanographic, biotic, and human adaptive systems (Denton and Hughes, 1981; Martin and Klein, 1984; Porter, 1983; Wright, 1983). Prehistorians have long been aware of the importance of environment as a potential catalyst for change in human adaptive systems and have traditionally emphasized local and regional relationships. With the increasing number of available syntheses documenting human adaptive responses to late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments (Bryan, 1986; Mead and Meltzer, 1986; Shutler, 1983), it is now possible to enlarge the survey and attempt a continental overview of how the end of the last major climate cycle (18 to 6 ka) was linked to terrestrial environments and human adaptive systems in North America. Because of the breadth of the topic, emphasis is placed on the period of greatest change between 12 and 10 ka.

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