UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents:

Archaeology in Owens Valley: Examining Risk Buffering Strategies among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Western Great Basin

By Jelmer Eerkens

Advances in paleoenvironmental research, using tree-ring and other annually resolved data, have allowed archaeologists to ask increasingly detailed questions about how prehistoric societies respond to and cope with variability and uncertainty. To date, most of this research has been directed at sedentary and agricultural societies. This discussion will focus on recent research in southern Owens Valley aimed at understanding how both mobile and sedentary hunter-gatherers mediate variation in climate, and particularly how mobility, exchange, storage, and diet diversification are used within these strategies.



Wednesday November 19, 1997
HSSB 2001A, The Anthropology Conference Room

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