Human impacts on ancient marine ecosystems : a global perspective / edited by Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson.

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Archaeology, marine ecology, and human impacts on marine environments / Jon M. Erlandson and Torben C. Rick -- Short and sometimes sharp : human impacts on marine resources in the archaeology and history of South Polynesia / Atholl Anderson -- Aleut hunters, sea otters, and sea cows : three thousand years of interactions in the western Aleutian Islands, Alaska / Debra G. Corbett [and others] -- Historical ecology and human impacts on coastal ecosystems of the Santa Barbara Channel region, California / Torben C. Rick [and others] -- Long-term effects of human predation on marine ecosystems in Guerrero, Mexico / Douglas J. Kennett [and others] -- Ancient fisheries and marine ecology of coastal Peru / Elizabeth J. Reitz, C. Fred T. Andrus, and Daniel H. Sandweiss -- Human impacts on marine environments in the West Indies during the Middle to Late Holocene / Scott M. Fitzpatrick, William F. Keegan, and Kathleen Sullivan Sealey -- Possible prehistoric fishing effects on coastal marine food webs in the Gulf of Maine / Bruce J. Bourque, Beverly J. Johnson, and Robert S. Steneck -- Codfish and kings, seals and subsistence : Norse marine resource use in the North Atlantic / Sophia Perdikaris and Thomas H. McGovern -- Historical ecology of the North Sea Basin : an archaeological perspective and some problems of methodology / Geoff Bailey [and others] -- Twenty thousand years of fishing in the strait : archaeological fish and shellfish assemblages from southern Iberia / Arturo Morales-Muñiz and Eufrasia Roselló-Izquierdo -- Human impact on precolonial West Coast marine environments of South Africa / Antonieta Jerardino, George M. Branch, and Rene Navarro -- Archaeology, historical ecology, and the future of ocean ecosystems / Torben C. Rick and Jon M. Erlandson.

"Archaeological data now show that relatively intense human adaptations to coastal environments developed much earlier than once believed - more than 125,000 years ago. With our oceans and marine fisheries currently in a state of crisis, coastal archaeological sites contain a wealth of data that can shed light on the history of human exploitation of marine ecosystems and marine conservation principles. This volume, the first global survey of these topics, brings together researchers working in coastal areas around the world to address the links between archaeology, history, marine ecology, and fisheries management. In eleven case studies from the Americas, the Pacific Islands, the North Sea, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, they cover diverse marine ecosystems ranging from kelp forests to coral reefs and mangroves and reach into deep history to discover how humans interacted with and affected these aquatic environments."--Jacket.

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