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Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice Book Reviews William Balée's musings on the implications of human activities on landscapes both ancient and contemporary. The six archaeological case studies cover the globe, from Denmark, Japan, and Brazil to the US Southwest and Southeast. Nicky Milner shows how Mesolithic-Neolithic (5400­3700 BCE) exploiters of oysters in Denmark may have overexploited that resource and therefore forced themselves to shift to cockles, although she is does not rule out climate change as a reason for that shift. Torben C. Rick shows that hunter-gatherers (post13,000 BP) seem to have intentionally introduced foxes to the California Channel Islands and unintentionally introduced certain mouse species and grand squirrels. Junko Habu and Mark E. Hall describe the evidence for subsistence specialization in certain middle Jomon (ca. 3300­2800 BCE) sites in Japan and associated complex ecological issues that are the subjects of ongoing research. Thompson, John A. Turck, and Chester B. DePratter discuss how Native American depositions of shell rings and surfaces on marsh islands along the Georgia coast permanently altered that landscape (late Archaic to ca. 1600 CE). Patricia A. Gilman, Elizabeth M. Toney, and Nicholas H. Beale use known effects of cultivation on animal and bird species to show that even though http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ethnohistory Duke University Press

Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice

Rensink, B. W.
Ethnohistory , Volume 61 (2) – Mar 20, 2014
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Book Reviews William Balée's musings on the implications of human activities on landscapes both ancient and contemporary. The six archaeological case studies cover the globe, from Denmark, Japan, and Brazil to the US Southwest and Southeast. Nicky Milner shows how Mesolithic-Neolithic (5400­3700 BCE) exploiters of oysters in Denmark may have overexploited that resource and therefore forced themselves to shift to cockles, although she is does not rule out climate change as a reason for that shift. Torben C. Rick shows that hunter-gatherers (post13,000 BP) seem to have intentionally introduced foxes to the California Channel Islands and unintentionally introduced certain mouse species and grand squirrels. Junko Habu and Mark E. Hall describe the evidence for subsistence specialization in certain middle Jomon (ca. 3300­2800 BCE) sites in Japan and associated complex ecological issues that are the subjects of ongoing research. Thompson, John A. Turck, and Chester B. DePratter discuss how Native American depositions of shell rings and surfaces on marsh islands along the Georgia coast permanently altered that landscape (late Archaic to ca. 1600 CE). Patricia A. Gilman, Elizabeth M. Toney, and Nicholas H. Beale use known effects of cultivation on animal and bird species to show that even though

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Published: Mar 20, 2014

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