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Prehistoric Human-environment Interactions: People, Fire, Climate and Vegetation on the Columbia Plateau, USA - Couverture souple

Scharf, Elizabeth A.

 
9781407305820: Prehistoric Human-environment Interactions: People, Fire, Climate and Vegetation on the Columbia Plateau, USA
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1407305824 ISBN 13 : 9781407305820
Editeur : BAR Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Modern ecological studies are unable to examine long-term processes operating on the order of hundreds of years. Because of the limited length of modern and historic records, questions about long-term interactions between people and the environment can only be answered using paleoecological and archaeological information. This volume presents prehistoric records that span over a millennium to examine issues of human paleoecology on the Columbia Plateau of Washington State, USA. Unlike many previous studies, this study (1) quantifies past human population, (2) compares relative inputs of humans, climate, fire, and vegetation using multivariate statistics, (3) examines relationships between variables when leads and lags of different lengths are introduced, and (4) identifies multicollinearity, allowing variables of no unique explanatory value to be eliminated. This study indicates that research on human impacts that focuses on bivariate patterns, such as simple comparisons of coeval human population and fire, can suffer from the problem of equifinality. The multivariate statistical procedures employed in this work avoid these problems, however, and can be used in any study that employs observations taken at equally-spaced time intervals. Additionally, the protocols developed and used in this volume can be easily adapted and applied in new geographical areas -the methods and research design used need not be tied to this particular location.

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Elizabeth A. Scharf

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Éditeur
BAR Publishing
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1407305824
ISBN 13 
9781407305820
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
134
Coordonnées du fabricant
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