Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia. ...
The Circumpolar North is generally recognized as a challenging environment to inhabit and yet, we know relatively little about how people managed their welfare in these places. Here, we add to the understanding of maritime hunter-gatherers in the subarctic North Pacific through a comparative approac...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.49518 2024-02-27T08:45:46+00:00 Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia. ... Gjesfjeld, Erik Etnier, Michael A Takase, Katsunori Brown, William A Fitzhugh, Ben 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.49518 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/302447 en eng Informa UK Limited open.access All rights reserved http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 Archaeology Circumpolar Kuril Islands biogeography hunter-gatherers article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle Article 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.49518 2024-02-01T15:00:20Z The Circumpolar North is generally recognized as a challenging environment to inhabit and yet, we know relatively little about how people managed their welfare in these places. Here, we add to the understanding of maritime hunter-gatherers in the subarctic North Pacific through a comparative approach that synthesizes biogeographic and archaeological data from the Kuril Islands. We conclude that our faunal, ceramic and lithic evidence support expectations from biogeography as assemblages from low biodiversity and insular regions show limited diet breadth, more locally produced pottery and a conservation of lithic resources. However, we highlight that these ecological factors did not strictly determine the occupation history of the archipelago as radiocarbon data suggests all regions experienced similar demographic fluctuations regard-less of their biogeography. These results imply additional pressures influenced the strategic use and settlement of the Kuril Islands and the need for increased chronological ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Subarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Pacific |
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The Circumpolar North is generally recognized as a challenging environment to inhabit and yet, we know relatively little about how people managed their welfare in these places. Here, we add to the understanding of maritime hunter-gatherers in the subarctic North Pacific through a comparative approach that synthesizes biogeographic and archaeological data from the Kuril Islands. We conclude that our faunal, ceramic and lithic evidence support expectations from biogeography as assemblages from low biodiversity and insular regions show limited diet breadth, more locally produced pottery and a conservation of lithic resources. However, we highlight that these ecological factors did not strictly determine the occupation history of the archipelago as radiocarbon data suggests all regions experienced similar demographic fluctuations regard-less of their biogeography. These results imply additional pressures influenced the strategic use and settlement of the Kuril Islands and the need for increased chronological ... |
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Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia. ... |
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Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia. ... |
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