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- W45431085 abstract "Modern human-induced climate change will have a particularly adverse impact oncoastal non-industrial societies. Understanding how such changes have occurred in thepast can provide better tools to address social vulnerability in these contexts. The maingoal of this thesis is to consider how past non-industrial societies responded toenvironmental change and which conditions affected their sustainability. Here Iinvestigate Mid-Holocene climate change and its relationship to the earliest humanoccupations in the Caribbean Archipelago (pre-Arawak period), using the site ofAngostura (Puerto Rico) as a case study. On-site geoarchaeological tests – includingmicroartefact and bulk-sediment analyses – were selected to study site-formationprocesses. Off-site sediment cores were collected and studied to address sea-level andlandscape change. Archaeomalacological analysis assessed subsistence behaviour andlandscape ecology. An assemblage of 18 radiocarbon dates was used to providechronological context. To consider the dynamic and complex relationship between peopleand the environment, I apply the Theory of Adaptive Change (TAC) as a model to articulatescale-shifting and facilitate intra-scale comparison of biotic, abiotic and cultural elements.The various analyses show that significant environmental changes occurred during thepre-Arawak, but this had no negative effect on cultural systems. Long-distance webs ofinteraction, diet diversification, and landscape domestication enabled flexibility to adaptand respond successfully to change. Increasingly inflexible ‘home range’ boundaries andenhanced meso-scale rigidity lowered overall resilience of the cultural system, increasingits sensitivity to long-term landscape change. This vulnerability, however, was social; notan innate effect of changes in the environment. This observation helped identify fouraspects that condition social vulnerability to change: territorial boundaries, ecosystembiodiversity, dependence on spatial configuration of landscapes, and knowledge.Understanding the interconnection between systems and their multiple nested interrelationscan help develop a better understanding of the complexity of change and themeaning of sustainability within socio-natural systems." @default.
- W45431085 created "2016-06-24" @default.
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- W45431085 date "2011-09-28" @default.
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- W45431085 title "Between land and sea in Puerto Rico: climates, coastal landscapes and human occupations in the mid-Holocene Caribbean" @default.
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