TY - BOOK AU - Klokler,Daniela AU - Burchell,Meghan AU - Eggers,Sabine AU - Souza,Sheila M.Ferraz Mendonça de AU - Roksandic,Mirjana ED - Project Muse. TI - The cultural dynamics of shell-matrix sites SN - 9780826354570 AV - CC77.S5 C85 2014 U1 - 930.1 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology KW - bisacsh KW - Ethnoarchaeology KW - Coastal archaeology KW - Social archaelogy KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Human remains (Archaeology) KW - Fish remains (Archaeology) KW - Kitchen-middens KW - Social aspects KW - Analysis KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites : Diverse Perspectives on Biological Remains from Shell Mounds and Shell Middens / Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Daniela Klokler, Sabine Eggers, and Meghan Burchell -- Part I. Typology and Function -- Factors Influencing the Formation of Large Shell Mounds in California's Santa Barbara Channel Region / Todd J. Braje, Jon M. Erlandson, and Torben C. Rick -- The Key Marco Site, A Planned Shell-Mound Community on the Southwest Florida Coast / Randolph J. Widmer -- Ringed Shell Features of the Southeast United States : Architecture and Midden / Michael Russo -- Shell Rings of the Lower Atlantic Coast of the United States : Defining Function by Contrasting Details, with Reference to Ecuador, Columbia, and Japan / Rebecca Saunders -- Late Holocene Coastal Economies and the Anadara granosa-Dominated Shell Mounds of Northern Australia : Evidence from Blue Mud Bay, Northeast Arnhem Land / Patrick A. Faulkner -- Shell Middens in Western Algarve (Southern Portugal) During the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic : Functionality, Subsistence, and Material Culture / Maria João Valente, Rebecca Dean, and António Faustino Carvalho -- Were Sambaqui People Buried in the Trash? Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and the Evolution of the Interpretation of Brazilian Shell Mounds / Maria Dulce Gaspar, Daniela Klokler, and Paulo DeBlasis -- Part II. People and Burials -- Cultural Formation Processes of the Bioarchaeological Record of a Brazilian Shell Mound / Mercedes Okumura and Sabine Eggers -- The Skeletal Assemblage and Burial Ritual at the Site of Cabeço da Amoreira : the 1960s Excavations by Veiga Ferreira and Roche / Mirjana Roksandic and Mary Jackes -- New Photographic Evidence on the 1954 Excavations at Moita do Sebastião, Muge, Portugal / Mary Jackes, Pedro Alvim, Jose Antonio Anacleto, and Mirjana Roksandic -- A Ritually Constructed Shell Mound : Feasting at the Jabuticabeira II Site / Daniela Klokler -- Sambaqui People, the Shell-Mound Builders of Brazil : A Challenge for Paleodemographers / Sheila Maria Ferraz Mendonça de Souza -- Do Cultural Markers Reflect Biological Affinities? A Test Using Prehistoric Ceramist and Non-Ceramist Groups from Coastal Brazil / Mercedes Okumura -- General Considerations about the Bioarchaeological Contexts in Patagonian Coast Shell Middens / Jorge A. Suby and Ricardo A. Guichón Part III. Subsistence and Ecology -- Shell Middens, Vertebrate Fauna, and Northwest Coast Subsistence : Intensification and Generalization of Prehistoric Northwest Coast Economies / Trevor J. Orchard and Terence N. Clark -- The Riverine Sambaqui : Zooarchaeological Studies of Inland Brazilian Shell Mounds / Levy Figuti and Claudia Plens -- Shellfish and Resource Sustainability on the Central Northwest Coast of North America / Phoebe Daniels -- Biogeochemical Signatures of Marine and Estuarine Bivalves : Implications for Interpreting Seasonality at Shell-Midden Sites Using High-Resolution Stable Isotope Sclerochronology / Meghan Burchell, Nadine Hallmann, Bernd R. Schöne, Aubrey Cannon, and Henry P. Schwarcz -- Mesolithic and Neolithic Shell Middens in Western Scotland : A Comparative Analysis of Shellfish Exploitation Patterns / Catriona Pickard and Clive Bonsall -- Ethnoarchaeology and Residue Analysis in Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Sites : A Pilot Study / Ivan Briz i Godino, Debora Zurro, Myrian Álvarez, and Marco Madella -- Micro-Remains Trapped in Dental Calculus Reveal Plants Consumed by Brazilian Shell-Mound Builders / Celia H.C. Boyadjian and Sabine Eggers -- Landscape and Use of Plants by Southern and Southeastern Brazilian Shell-Mound Builders / Rita Scheel-Ybert UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826354570/ ER -