Intensification, Tipping Points, and Social Change in a Coupled Forager-Resource System

Human Nature

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 419-446

  Freeman, Jacob ^a   Anderies, John M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioeconomic model; Foraging; Hunter gatherer; Resource intensification; Risk; Territoriality and land tenure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CATERING SERVICE; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; TERRITORIALITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 84870355184     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-012-9154-8     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Anderies, J. M. (1998). Culture and human agro-ecosystem dynamics: the Tsembaga of New Guinea. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 192, 515-530.
2. Anderies, J. M. (2003). Economic development, demographics, and renewable resources: a dynamical systems approach. Environment and Development Economics, 8, 219-246.
3. Anderies, J. M. (2006). Robustness, institutions and large-scale change in socio-ecological systems: the Hohokam of the Phoenix Basin. Journal of Institutional Economics, 2, 133-155.
4. Anderies, J. M., Jannsen, M. A., & Walker, B. H. (2002). Grazing management, resilience, and the dynamics of a fire-driven rangeland system. Ecosystems, 5, 23-44.
5. Baker, M. J. (2003). An equilibrium conflict model of land tenure in hunter-gatherer societies. Journal of Political Economy, 111, 124-173.
6. Bender, B. (1978). Gatherer to farmer: a social perspective. Journal of World Archaeology, 10, 204-222.
7. Bettinger, R. L. (1991). Hunter-gatherers: Archaeological and evolutionary theory. New York: Plenum.
8. Bettinger, R. L. (1999). From traveler to processor: Regional trajectories of hunter-gatherer sedentism in the Inyo-Mono Region, California. In B. R. Billman & G. M. Feinman (Eds.), Settlement pattern studies in the Americas: Fifty years since Viru (pp. 39-55). Washington: Smithsonian.
9. Bettinger, R. L., & Baumhoff, M. A. (1982). The Numic spread: Great Basin cultures in competition. American Antiquity, 47, 487-503.
10. Binford, L. R. (1983). In pursuit of the past: Decoding the archaeological record. New York: Thames and Hudson.
11. Binford, L. R. (1999). Time as a clue to cause? Proceedings of the British Academy, 101, 1-35.
12. Binford, L. R. (2001). Constructing frames of reference: An analytical method for archaeological theory building using hunter-gatherer and environmental data sets. Berkeley: University of California Press.
13. Brander, J. A., & Taylor, M. S. (1998). The simple economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus model of renewable resource use. American Economic Review, 88, 119-138.
14. Cashdan, E. (1983). Territoriality among human foragers: Ecological models and an application to four Bushman groups. Current Anthropology, 24, 47-66.
15. Charnov, E. L. (1976). Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem. Theoretical Population Biology, 9, 129-136.
16. Charnov, E. L., Orians, G. H., & Hyatt, K. (1976). Ecological implications of resource depression. American Naturalist, 10, 247-259.
17. Clark, C. W. (1976). Mathematical bioeconomics: The optimal management of renewable resources. New York: Wiley.
18. Clark, C. W., & Mangel, M. (2001). Dynamic state models in ecology. New York: Oxford University Press.
19. Cohen, M. N. (1977). The food crisis in prehistory. New Haven: Yale University Press.
20. Cohen, M. N. (2009). Introduction: rethinking the origins of agriculture. Current Anthropology, 50, 591-595.
21. Cowgill, G. L. (1975). On the causes and consequences of ancient and modern population changes. American Anthropologist, 77, 505-525.
22. Dielman, T. E. (2001). Applied regression analysis. Pacific Grove: Brooks and Cole.
23. Dyson-Hudson, R., & Smith, E. A. (1978). Human territoriality: an ecological reassessment. American Anthropologist, 80, 21-41.
24. Ermentrout, B. (2006). XPPAUT 5. 96 (Linux-Ubuntu distribution).
25. Gordon, H. S. (1954). The economic theory of a common property resource: the fishery. Journal of Political Economy, 62, 124-42.
26. Grove, M. (2009). Hunter-gatherer movement patterns: causes and constraints. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 28, 222-233.
27. Hassell, M. P., & Varley, G. C. (1969). New inductive population model for insect parasites and its bearing on biological control. Nature, 223, 1133-1137.
28. Hayden, B. (1995). A new overview of domestication. In: D. T. Price & A. B. Gebaure (Eds.), Last hunters-first farmers: New perspectives on the prehistoric transition to agriculture (pp. 273-299). Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
29. Holt, R. D., & Kimbrell, T. (2007). Foraging and population dynamics. In D. W. Stephens, J. S. Brown, & R. C. Ydenberg (Eds.), Foraging: Behavior and ecology (pp. 365-395). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
30. Janssen, M. A., Kohler, T. A., & Scheffer, M. (2003). Sunk-cost effects and vulnerability to collapse in ancient societies. Current Anthropology, 44, 722-728.
31. Keeley, L. H. (1988). Hunter-gatherer economic complexity and population pressure: a cross-cultural analysis. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 7, 373-411.
32. Keeley, L. H. (1995). Protoagricultural practices among hunter-gatherers: a cross-cultural survey. In D. T. Price & A. B. Gebaure (Eds.), Last hunters-first farmers: New perspectives on the prehistoric transition to agriculture (pp. 243-272). Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
33. Kelly, R. L. (1995). The foraging spectrum: Diversity in hunter-gatherer lifeways. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
34. Lee, C. T., & Tuljapurkar, S. (2008). Population and prehistory I: food-dependent population growth in constant environments. Theoretical Population Biology, 73, 473-482.
35. MacArthur, R. H. (1972). Geographical ecology: Patterns in the distribution of species. New York: Harper and Row.
36. MacArthur, R. H., & Pianka, E. R. (1966). On optimal use of a patchy environment. American Naturalist, 100, 603-609.
37. May, R. M. (1973). Stability and complexity in model ecosystems. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
38. Minnis, P. E. (1992). Earliest plant cultivation in the desert borderlands of North America. In C. Wesley Cowan & Patty Jo Watson (Eds.), The origins of agriculture: An international perspective (pp. 121-141). Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
39. Odum, E. P., & Barrett, G. W. (2002). Fundamentals of ecology. New York: Thomson Learning.
40. Ostrom, E. (2005). Understanding institutional diversity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
41. Pimm, S. L., & Lawton, J. H. (1978). On feeding on more than one trophic level. Nature, 275, 542-544.
42. Puleston, C. O., & Tuljapurkar, S. (2008). Population and prehistory II: space-limited human populations in constant environments. Theoretical Population Biology, 74, 147-160.
43. Redding, R. W. (1988). A general explanation of subsistence change: from hunting and gathering to food production. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 7, 56-97.
44. Rosenberg, M. (1990). The mother of invention: evolutionary theory, territoriality, and the origins of agriculture. American Anthropologist, 92, 399-415.
45. Rosenberg, M. (1998). Cheating at musical chairs: territoriality and sedentism in an evolutionary context. Current Anthropology, 39, 653-681.
46. Rosenzweig, M. L. (1968). Net primary productivity of terrestrial communities: prediction from climatological data. American Naturalist, 102, 67-74.
47. Schaefer, M. B. (1991). Some aspects of the dynamics of populations important to the management of commercial marine fisheries. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 53, 253-279.
48. Scheffer, M., & Carpenter, S. R. (2003). Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, 18, 648-656.
49. Smith, E. A. (1988). Risk and uncertainty in the "original affluent society": evolutionary ecology of resource sharing and land tenure. In T. Ingold, D. Riches, & J. Woodburn (Eds.), Hunters and gatherers vol. I: History, evolution, and social change (pp. 222-251). Oxford: Berg.
50. Smith, E. A. (1991). Inujjuamiut foraging strategies: Evolutionary ecology of an arctic hunting economy. Hawthorne: Gruyter.
51. Stephens, D. W., & Krebs, J. R. (1986). Foraging theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
52. van Coller, L. (1997). Automated techniques for the qualitative analysis of ecological models: continuous models. Conservation Ecology, 1(1), 5. Available online at http://www. consecol. org/vol1/iss1/art5/.
53. Wills, W. H. (1988). Early prehistoric agriculture in the American Southwest. Santa Fe: SAR.
54. Winterhalder, B. (1983). Opportunity-cost foraging models for stationary and mobile predators. American Naturalist, 122, 73-84.
55. Winterhalder, B. (2001). The behavioral ecology of hunter-gatherers. In C. Panter-Brick, R. H. Layton, & P. Rowley-Coney (Eds.), Hunter-gatherers: An interdisciplinary perspective (pp. 12-35). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
56. Winterhalder, B. (2002). Models. In J. P. Hart & J. E. Terrell (Eds.), Darwin and archaeology: A handbook of key concepts (pp. 201-223). Westport: Bergin and Garvey.
57. Winterhalder, B., & Goland, C. (1993). On population, foraging efficiency, and plant domestication. Current Anthropology, 34, 710-715.
58. Winterhalder, B., & Goland, C. (1997). An evolutionary ecology perspective on diet choice, risk, and plant domestication. In K. J. Gremillion (Ed.), People, plants, and landscapes: Studies in paleoethnobotany (pp. 123-160). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
59. Winterhalder, B., & Lu, F. (1997). A forager-resource population ecology model and implications for indigenous conservation. Conservation Biology, 11, 1354-1364.
60. Winterhalder, B., Baillargeon, W., Cappelletto, F., Daniel, R. I., & Prescott, C. (1988). The population ecology of hunter-gatherers and their prey. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 7, 289-328.
61. Wood, J. W. (1998). A theory of preindustrial population dynamics: demography, economy, and well-being in a Malthusian system. Current Anthropology, 39, 99-135.