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Demonstrating the wide variation among complex hunter-gatherer
communities in coastal settings This book explores the forms and
trajectories of social complexity among fisher-hunter-gatherers who
lived in coastal, estuarine, and riverine settings in pre-Columbian
North America. Through case studies from several different regions
and intellectual traditions, the contributors to this volume
collectively demonstrate remarkable variation in the circumstances
and histories of complex hunter-gatherers in maritime environments.
The volume draws on archaeological research from the North Pacific
and Alaska, the Pacific Northwest coast and interior, the
California Channel Islands, and the Southeastern U.S. and Florida.
Essays trace complex social configurations through monumentality,
ceremonialism, territoriality, community organization, and trade
and exchange. They show that while factors such as boat travel,
patterns of marine and riverine resource availability, and
sedentism and village formation are common unifying threads across
the continent, these factors manifest in historically contingent
ways in different contexts. Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Complexity in
North America offers specific, substantive examples of change and
transformation in these communities, emphasizing the wide range of
complexity among them. It considers the use of the term "complex
hunter-gatherer" and what these case studies show about the value
and limitations of the concept, adding nuance to an ongoing
conversation in the field.
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