"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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