Social Adaptation to Food Stress
A Prehistoric Southwestern Example
250 pages
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6.00 x 9.00
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© 1985
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Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction
Dimensions of Food Stress
Research Limitations
Traditional Economies and Food Stress
Previous Anthropological Research on Food Stress
2. A Model of Economic and Organizational Responses to Food Stress
Human Adaptation
The Model
Ethnographic Examples of Responses to Food Stress
A Catalog of Some Common Responses to Food Shortages
Summary
3. Archeology of the Rio Mimbres Region
Research by the Mimbres Foundation
Culture History Outline
Summary
4. The Natural Environment of the Rio Mimbres Region
General Topography
Climate
Hydrology
Soils
Vegetation
Fauna
Climatic Fluctuations
Documented Prehistoric Environmental Change
Documented Historic Environmental Change
Environmental Reconstruction
5. Estimating Food Stress in the Study Area
Prehistoric Mimbres Subsistence Economy
Modeling Subsistence Failure
Summary
6. Responses to Food Stress in the Study Area
Sociopolitical Integration
Exchange
Summary
7. Conclusions
Summary of Research
Archeological Study of Food Stress
Food Stress and Southwestern Prehistory
Food Stress and Culture Change
Appendix: Plant Names
References Cited
Index
Preface
1. Introduction
Dimensions of Food Stress
Research Limitations
Traditional Economies and Food Stress
Previous Anthropological Research on Food Stress
2. A Model of Economic and Organizational Responses to Food Stress
Human Adaptation
The Model
Ethnographic Examples of Responses to Food Stress
A Catalog of Some Common Responses to Food Shortages
Summary
3. Archeology of the Rio Mimbres Region
Research by the Mimbres Foundation
Culture History Outline
Summary
4. The Natural Environment of the Rio Mimbres Region
General Topography
Climate
Hydrology
Soils
Vegetation
Fauna
Climatic Fluctuations
Documented Prehistoric Environmental Change
Documented Historic Environmental Change
Environmental Reconstruction
5. Estimating Food Stress in the Study Area
Prehistoric Mimbres Subsistence Economy
Modeling Subsistence Failure
Summary
6. Responses to Food Stress in the Study Area
Sociopolitical Integration
Exchange
Summary
7. Conclusions
Summary of Research
Archeological Study of Food Stress
Food Stress and Southwestern Prehistory
Food Stress and Culture Change
Appendix: Plant Names
References Cited
Index
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