Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions

Daniel A. Contreras is an archaeologist focused on human-environment interactions in the past, particularly anthropogenic and geomorphic components of dynamic landscapes and environmental change. He pursues these interests in contexts ranging from complex polities in Andean South America and Mesoamerica to early Neolithic societies experimenting with domestication and village life in Southwest Asia. He is currently a LabEx OT-Med postdoctoral researcher in the Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie (IMBE) and Groupement de recherche en économie quantitative d’Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) at Aix-Marseille Université.

• Introduction1. Correlation is Not Enough – Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment InteractionsDaniel A. ContrerasCase Studies2. Convergence and Divergence as Problems of Explanation In Land Use Histories - Two Mexican ExamplesAleksander Borejsza and Arthur A. JoyceAlluvial geoarchaeology3. From the river to the fields: the contribution of micromorphology to the study of hydro-agrosystems in semi-arid environments (Phoenix, Arizona)Louise PurdueMicromorphology and agrosystems4. Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation in the middle Wadi el-Hasa, JordanDaniel A. Contreras and Cheryl MakarewiczPaleolandscape Reconstruction in Archaeology5. Human-Environment Interactions through the Epipalaeolithic of Eastern JordanMatthew D. Jones, Lisa Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, and Louise MartinIntegrating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data through on-site and off-site stratigraphy6. Living on the Edge: Pre-Columbian Habitation of the Desert Periphery of the Chicama Valley, PerúAri Caramanica and Michele KoonsLandscape Paleobotany7. A fine-grained analysis of terra preta formation: understanding causality through microartifactual and chemical indices in the Central AmazonAnna T. Browne RibeiroPedology for Archaeology8. External Impacts on Internal Dynamics: Effects of Paleoclimatic and Demographic Variability on Acorn Exploitation along the Central California CoastBrian F. Codding and Terry L. JonesSpatially Explicit Behavioral Ecology 9. Describing Microenvironments Used for Nomadic Pastoralist Habitation Sites: Explanatory Tools for Surfaces, Places, and NetworksJoshua WrightSimple Suitabilit