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New England Algonquians: Navigating “Backwaters” and Typological Boundaries
Abstract
This article argues that New England Algonquians offer us an important historical example of great social and ecological stability—as well as social complexity—over more than 10 millennia. The archaeological record in New England allows us to question causal relationships among subsistence, sedentism, and social complexity, and to explore alternative pathways in human history. In this sense, the article challenges directional models of cultural evolution and, instead, argues for the importance of historical contingency in human adaptation. It first reviews the archaeological evidence for the Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods as a backdrop for a full discussion of New England's mobile farmers.
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- Authors
- Chilton, E. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chilton, Elizabeth S.
- Venue
- Oxford Handbooks Online
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2012-02-10
- OpenAlex
- W2713012271
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2021: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 0.18
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
- Keywords
- Algonquian peoples, subsistence strategies, sedentism, social complexity, cultural evolution, historical contingency, Archaic period, human adaptation, ecosystem stability, backwater
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