Evolutionary Ecology and Archaeology
Applications to Problems in Human Evolution and Prehistory

Edited by Jack M. Broughton and Michael D. Cannon
November 2008
156 figures
7 x 10, 304 pp.
Paper $50.00s
978-0-87480-935-0

The field of evolutionary ecology, which applies Darwinian natural selection theory to the study of adaptive design in behavior, morphology, and life history, has produced substantial advances in understanding human evolution and prehistory. Editors Jack Broughton and Michael Cannon have compiled archaeological and paleoanthro- pological studies that provide a foundation for sustained development of the study of the human past.

Each of the twenty-four contributions represents a key benchmark in the field. Chapters are grouped by substantive topic and/or time period; each section includes an introduction by the editors:
• Early Hominid Evolution and Behavior
• Pleistocene Foragers and Colonists
• Post-Glacial Adaptations
• Food Production Strategies
• Cooperation and Competition in Complex Societies

This volume’s broad range of research will foster sustained development of evolutionary ecology, and like Darwin’s work nearly 150 years ago will open wide fields of understanding of human prehistory.

Jack M. Broughton is professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. His publications include Prehistoric Human Impacts on California Birds: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Avifauna and Resource Depression and Intensification during the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay: Evidence from the Emeryville Shellmound Vertebrate Fauna,

Michael D. Cannon is a principal investigator with SWCA Environmental Consultants, Salt Lake City, and an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Utah Department of Anthropology. His research focuses on past environments and the ecology of prehistoric human subsistence in North America, particularly in the Great Basin and the Southwest.

Contributors:
Michael S. Alvard, Texas A & M University
K. Renee Barlow, College of Eastern Utah
Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University
Frank E. Bayham, California State University, Chico
Charlotte Beck, Hamilton College
Gary E. Belovsky, Notre Dame University
Nicholas G. Blurton Jones, University of California, Los Angeles
P. Jeffrey Brantingham,
University of California, Los Angeles
Jason Bright, Utah Department of Transportation
Jack M. Broughton, University of Utah
David A. Byers, Missouri State University
Michael D. Cannon, SWCA Environmental Consultants
Caitlyn R. Cook Francoise Delpech, Université Bordeaux
Robert G. Elston, Silver City, Nevada
Cyhthia M. Fadem, Washington University
Donald K. Grayson, University of Washington
Kristen J. Gremillion, Ohio State University
Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah
Kim Hill, Arizona State University
Lori Hunsaker, University of Utah
Ana Magdalena Hurtado, Arizona State University
George T. Jones, Hamilton College
Hillard Kaplan, University of New Mexico
Robert L. Kelly, University of Wyoming
Timothy A. Kohler, Washington State University
Steve L. Kuhn, University of Arizona
Lawrence A. Kuznar, Indiana University-Purdue University
Jane Lancaster, University of New Mexico
C. Owen Lovejoy, Kent State University
Duncan Metcalfe, University of Utah
Sara A. Millward, Eastern New Mexico University
Natalie D. Munro, University of Connecticut
Lisa Nagaoka, University of North Texas
Fraser Neiman, Archaeology Lab, Monticello-University of Virginia
James F. O’Connell, University of Utah
Kenneth W. Russell Steven R. Simms, Utah State University
Mary C. Stiner, University of Arizona
Todd A. Surovell, University of Wyoming
Amanda K. Taylor, University of Washington
Eitan Tchernov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Andrew A. Ugan, University of Utah
Carla R. Van West, SRI Foundation
David W. Zeanah, California State University, Sacramento