Population growth, climatic cooling, and the development of collector strategies on the Southern Plateau, western North America

The emergence of status inequality in intermediate scale societies: A demographic and socio-economic history of the Keatley Creek site, British Columbia

“…Predation mode: fauna and flora Chatters (1987Chatters ( , 1995 notes that predation mode is the strategy used to acquire prey. This can come in two forms: pursuit and search.…”

“…Following Chatters (1995), Lenert (2001), and Lepofsky et al (2005), we used frequencies of calibrated radiocarbon dated sites as a coarse indicator of regional population dynamics. In order to accomplish this, we accumulated radiocarbon data from sites in the Middle-Fraser Canyon.…”

Archaeology at the Millennium

“…A number of prehistorians have looked for evidence, and even tested, for population pressure prior to the emergence of social complexity (Brumfiel, 1976;Cauvin, 1994:87;Milisauskas and Kruk, 1993:89-90;Muller, 1987:12;Wenke, 1989:135), all with negative results. The same has been true for changes in technology (Chatters, 1995) and for the appearance of domestication (Cohen and Armelagos, 1984).…”

“…In fact, this is a quite common phenomenon both ethnographically and prehistorically, as my own research at Keatley Creek has demonstrated (see Figure 7.7; Hayden, 1997). Work on the prehistoric households of the Northwest Coast (Ames, 1985;Chatters, 1989), the American Southwest (Feinman, 2000), and other areas display remarkably similar patterns. In all these cases, one-half to two-thirds or more of a community can be considered elite, although not all such families may be wealthy or actively involved in validating their elite status.…”

Storage adaptations among hunter–gatherers: A quantitative approach to the Jomon period

“…This perspective views relative storage capacity as an indicator of the relative wealth of corporate groups (Hayden, 1997). Thus, within the existing literature, this important archeological component is used to monitor the evolution of collector systems (Chatters, 1995;Prentiss and Chatters, 2003a,b), or it is applied to examine long-term systemic change among hunter-gatherers (Habu, 2004;Habu and Fitzhugh, 2002).…”