Uncertainty and risk-based decision-making : hunter-gatherer adaptation to spatiotemporal heterogeneity
"Hunter-gatherer land use and diet decision-making is tightly coupled with temporal (i.e., seasonal) and spatial (i.e., landscape) resource variability. This spatiotemporal variation, driven by climatic and hydrological processes poses considerable uncertainties and risks for hunter-gatherer economic success. In this dissertation, I use these contextual and behavioral variables to explore hunter gatherer social responses to resource uncertainty and risk in the Saginaw Bay Drainage of Michigan. Hunter-gatherer economic decision-making is often framed as responses to nutritional requirements, exploitation efficiency, and as a normative response to environmental conditions (resource constraints and abundance). This project explores decision-making through an alternate basis; of economic security explored through behavioral strategies intended cope and buffer against spatiotemporal risk and uncertainty ... " Abstract.
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Copyright Status
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- Material Type
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Theses
- Authors
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Cheruvelil, Jubin J.
- Thesis Advisors
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Lovis, William A.
- Committee Members
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O'Gorman, Jodie
Norder, John W.
Hayes, Daniel B.
- Date Published
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2013
- Program of Study
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Anthropology - Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree Level
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Doctoral
- Language
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English
- Pages
- xvi, 576 pages
- ISBN
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9781303412554
1303412551
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- https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/dm18-2g80