Hawaii as a Model System for Human Ecodynamics.
The human ecodynamics approach in archaeology privileges landscape as a core concept, asserting that there can be no environment or ecosystem detached from humans and their behavior. Drawing on recent research of a multidisciplinary biocomplexity project, I explore in this article the Hawaiian arch...
| Publicado en: | American Anthropologist Vol. 109; no. 1; pp. 8 - 27 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
March 2007
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