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Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory: Applications to Central California Hunter-Gatherers and Mimbres-Mogollon Agriculturalists

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Evolutionary ecology is a theoretical framework that has been widely applied to problems in human evolution and prehistory. Because the approach often focuses on how behavioral adjustments to changing socio-ecological conditions create novel selective pressures that in turn drive other changes in morphology and behavior, it draws on the same evolutionary logic that underlies niche construction theory. We illustrate here the important role that niche construction has played in archaeological applications of evolutionary ecology with two detailed case studies: one from Late Holocene hunter-gatherer populations in Central California and one from Mimbres-Mogollon agriculturalists in New Mexico. These examples illustrate that evolutionary ecology-based approaches, with an emphasis on formal predictive modeling, allow for the incorporation of niche construction as it affects model parameters with reference to specific problems involving past behavior. Further modeling and empirical applications will expand the synergies between these complementary approaches and advance our understanding of the human past.

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We thank Lydia Pyne and Julien Riel-Salvatore for organizing and chairing the symposium in which this paper was originally presented and for the work organizing the special JAMT volume. We also thank them and an anonymous reviewer for very helpful comments on the manuscript. EJB would like to acknowledge Tim D. White and the staff of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology for their assistance with the human skeletal collections from the Sacramento Valley. He would also like to thank Randy Milliken who provided access to the burial seriation data from the personal note collection of the late James A. Bennyhoff. Funding for EJB’s research summarized here was provided by a Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (no. 7163) and a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (no. 0424292).

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Broughton, J.M., Cannon, M.D. & Bartelink, E.J. Evolutionary Ecology, Resource Depression, and Niche Construction Theory: Applications to Central California Hunter-Gatherers and Mimbres-Mogollon Agriculturalists. J Archaeol Method Theory 17, 371–421 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-010-9095-7

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