Controlling for Landform Age When Determining the Settlement History of the Kuril Islands

MacInnes, Breanyn; Fitzhugh, Ben; Holman, Darryl J.

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“…To assess the degree of preservation error that these processes have created, MacInnes and colleagues (2014) compared the geomorphic ages of landscape features (landslides, pyroclastic flows, etc.) against the earliest archaeological dates recorded upon them.…”

Section: Paleodemography Of the Kuril Islandsmentioning

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“…See References for access link. 3 Material: BM = marine bone (excluded from analysis); Ch = wood charcoal; Ch* = wood charcoal recovered from Ainu Creek in 2007 post-disturbance, excluded from analysis; W = unburned wood; WB = wood bark. 4 Calibration: Oxcal 4.2, IntCal13, unless otherwise noted 5 Calibration: OxCal 4.2, Marine13 6 References: (A) Fitzhugh et al, 2002; (B) Fitzhugh, 2012; (C) MacInnes et al, 2014; (D) Phillips and Speakman, 2009; (E) this paper …”

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“… 6 References: (A) Fitzhugh et al, 2002; (B) Fitzhugh, 2012; (C) MacInnes et al, 2014; (D) Phillips and Speakman, 2009; (E) this paper …”

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Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: A study in complex human ecodynamics

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Living in remote places can strain the adaptive capacities of human settlers. It can also protect communities from external social, political and economic forces. In this paper, we present an archaeological population history of the Kuril Islands. This string of small volcanic islands on the margins of the Northwest Pacific was occupied by maritime hunting, fishing and gathering communities from the mid-Holocene to recent centuries. We bring together (1) 380 new and previously published archaeological radiocarbon dates, (2) a new paleodemographic model based on a radiocarbon-timestamped temporal frequency distribution of archaeological deposits, (3) recently published paleoclimate trends, and (4) recently published archaeological proxy evidence for changes in the extent of social networks. We demonstrate that, over the last two millennia, inhabitants of the Kuril Islands underwent dramatic demographic fluctuations. Explanations of these fluctuations are considered in the context of environmental hazards, social networks and the emergence of an East Asian “World System”, elucidating the tension between local and external adaptive strategies to social and ecological uncertainty. Results suggest that population resilience to local climate and environmental variability was achieved by virtue of social networks that maintained non-local support in times of crisis. Conversely, the expansion of the East Asian political economy into neighboring regions of the southern margin of the Kuril Islands perhaps in conjunction with exposure to epidemic diseases appears to have undermined the adaptive strategies, resulting in an increase in the vulnerability of Kuril populations to environmental fluctuations.

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“…13,000-11,500 cal yr BP) and 510 Early Archaic (ca. The archaeological sites and the areas in which they cluster provide the framework for assessing relationships between geomorphological change and archaeological site preservation and visibility (MacInnes, Fitzhugh, & Holman, 2014;Pederson & O'Brien, 2014). The model relies on identifying sediments of appropriate age that promote the preservation of late Wisconsin (i.e., Marine Isotope Stage [MIS] 2) and early Holocene (i.e., MIS 1) sediments.…”

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“…The model relies on identifying sediments of appropriate age that promote the preservation of late Wisconsin (i.e., Marine Isotope Stage [MIS] 2) and early Holocene (i.e., MIS 1) sediments. The archaeological sites and the areas in which they cluster provide the framework for assessing relationships between geomorphological change and archaeological site preservation and visibility (MacInnes, Fitzhugh, & Holman, 2014;Pederson & O'Brien, 2014).…”

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How Bedrock‐Controlled Channel Migration Can Structure Selective Preservation of Archaeological Sites: Implications for Modeling Paleoindian Settlement

Herrmann

2015

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Although Paleoindian sites in Indiana, USA, are commonly located on late Wisconsin (Last Glacial Maximum) outwash terraces, drainage basin development since deglaciation often obscures the visibility of such sites on flood plains by either burying them under alluvium or destroying them through erosion. Significant clusters of Paleoindian and Early Archaic sites, however, have been identified proximal to the modern White River channel in central Indiana on what is mapped as “floodplain.” These site cluster locations are patterned. They typically occur within bedrock‐controlled river reaches but are rare along unconfined meandering reaches. Subsurface reconnaissance and chronology indicate that despite the fact that they often flood, portions of the so‐called flood plains within bedrock‐confined reaches are actually terraces constructed of late Wisconsin outwash with minimal overbank sedimentation. Terrace preservation in these settings is a result of bedrock structure that protects older sediments from lateral erosion and differentially preserves archaeological sites near the modern channel in bedrock‐controlled reaches. Comparisons of archaeological sites within bedrock‐controlled segments of the White River to those in unconfined meandering segments suggests that significant numbers of Paleoindian and Early Archaic sites may be missing from river settings across the midcontinent. These findings demonstrate that bedrock channel controls are important to recognize when assessing prehistoric settlement distributions.

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A New Model for Coastal Resource Productivity and Sea‐Level Change: The Role of Physical Sedimentary Processes in Assessing the Archaeological Potential of Submerged Landscapes from the Northwest Australian Continental Shelf

2014

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Existing models of coastal occupation, in one form or another, embrace the assumption that changes in mean sea level were the prime driver for shifts in coastal resource productivity of consequence to coastal foragers. Focusing on the North West Shelf of Australia, this paper considers the role of physical sedimentary processes in understanding both past coastal resource productivity and the archaeology of drowned coastal landscapes. From a review of up-to-date literature on sea-level related coastal formation process related to the North West Shelf, we describe the complex interplay of sea-level change and sedimentary processes in determining (i) coastal resource availability, and (ii) archaeological site preservation potential through time. We argue that human behavioral models that have been linked solely to changes in sea level change from ca. 45 ka onward along the Australia continental shelf have inadequately accounted for local sedimentary regimes. It is not past sea-level per se, which is of relevance to coastal productivity and human behavioral ecology models but changes in tidal regimes, coastal configurations and sedimentation. We conclude that our understanding of maritime adaptations for Sahul (Greater Australia) remain incomplete without investigating former coastlines and archaeological information that now lies submerged offshore. C 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Controlling for Landform Age When Determining the Settlement History of the Kuril Islands

Cited by 12 publications

References 34 publications

Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: A study in complex human ecodynamics

Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific: A study in complex human ecodynamics

How Bedrock‐Controlled Channel Migration Can Structure Selective Preservation of Archaeological Sites: Implications for Modeling Paleoindian Settlement

A New Model for Coastal Resource Productivity and Sea‐Level Change: The Role of Physical Sedimentary Processes in Assessing the Archaeological Potential of Submerged Landscapes from the Northwest Australian Continental Shelf

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