Illustrations ................................................. vii
Introduction
Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites: Diverse
Perspectives on Biological Remains from Shell Mounds and
Shell Middens ............................................. xiii
Mirjana Roksandic, Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Daniela
Klokler, Sabine Eggers, and Meghan Burchell
PART I. TYPOLOGY AND FUNCTION
Chapter 1 Factors Influencing the Formation of Large Shell
Mounds in California's Santa Barbara Channel
Region ............................................... 1
Todd J. Braje, Jon M. Erlandson, and Torben С. Rick
Chapter 2 The Key Marco Site, A Planned Shell Mound
Community on the Southwest Florida Coast ............ 11
Randolph J. Widmer
Chapter 3 Ringed Shell Features of the Southeast United
States: Architecture and Midden ..................... 21
Michael Russo
Chapter 4 Shell Rings of the Lower Atlantic Coast of the
United States: Defining Function by Contrasting
Details, with Reference to Ecuador, Columbia,
and Japan ........................................... 41
Rebecca Saunders
Chapter 5 Late Holocene Coastal Economies and the Anadara
granosa-Dominated Shell Mounds of Northern
Australia: Evidence from Blue Mud Bay, Northeast
Arnhem Land ......................................... 57
Patrick A. Faulkner
Chapter 6 Shell Middens in Western Algarve (Southern
Portugal) during the Mesolithic and Early
Neolithic: Functionality, Subsistence, and
Material Culture .................................... 75
Maria João Valente, Rebecca Dean, and Antonio
Faustino Carvalho
Chapter 7 Were Sambaqui People Buried in the Trash?:
Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, and the
Evolution of the Interpretation of Brazilian
Shell Mounds ........................................ 91
Maria Dulce Gaspar, Daniela Klokler, and Paulo
DeBlasis
PART II. PEOPLE AND BURIALS
Chapter 8 Cultural Formation Processes of the
Bioarchaeological Record of a Brazilian Shell
Mound .............................................. 103
Mercedes Okumura and Sabine Eggers
Chapter 9 The Skeletal Assemblage and Burial Ritual at
the Site of Cabeco da Amoreira: The 1960s
Excavations by Veiga Ferreira Roche ................ 113
Mirjana Roksandic and Mary Jackes
Chapter 10 New Photographic Evidence on the 1954
Excavations at Moita do Sebastião, Muge,
Portugal ........................................... 131
Mary Jackes, Pedro Alvim, Jose Antonio Anacleto,
and Mirjana Roksandic
Chapter 11 A Ritually Constructed Shell Mound: Feasting at
the Jabuticabeira II Site .......................... 151
Daniela Klokler
Chapter 12 Sambaqui People, the Shell Mound Builders of
Brazil: A Challenge for Paleodemographers .......... 163
Sheila Mendonca de Souza
Chapter 13 Do Cultural Markers Reflect Biological
Affinities?: A Test Using Prehistoric Ceramist
and Non-Ceramist Groups from Coastal Brazil ........ 173
Mercedes Okumura
Chapter 14 General Considerations about the
Bioarchaeological Contexts in Patagonian Coast
Shell Middens ...................................... 189
Jorge A. Suby and Ricardo A. Guichón
PART III. SUBSISTENCE AND ECOLOGY
Chapter 15 Shell Middens, Vertebrate Fauna, and Northwest
Coast Subsistence: Intensification and
Generalization of Prehistoric Northwest Coast
Economies .......................................... 199
Trevor J. Orchard and Terence N. Clark
Chapter 16 The Riverine Sambaqui: Zooarchaeological
Studies of Inland Brazilian Shell Mounds ........... 213
Levy Figuti and Claudia Plens
Chapter 17 Shellfish and Resource Sustainability on the
Central Northwest Coast of North America ........... 223
Phoebe Daniels
Chapter 18 Biogeochemical Signatures of Marine and
Estuarine Bivalves: Implications for
Interpreting Seasonality at Shell Midden Sites
Using High-Resolution Stable Isotope
Sclerochronology ................................... 241
Meghan Burchell, Nadine Hallmann, Bernd
R. Schöne, Aubrey Cannon, and Henry P. Schwarcz
Chapter 19 Mesolithic and Neolithic Shell Middens in
Western Scotland: A Comparative Analysis of
Shellfish Exploitation Patterns .................... 251
Catriona Pickard and Clive Bonsall
Chapter 20 Ethnoarchaeology and Residue Analysis in
Fisher-Hunter-Gatherer Sites: A Pilot Study ........ 267
Ivan Briz i Godino, Débora Zurro, Myrian Álvez,
and Marco Madella
Chapter 21 Micro-Remains Trapped in Dental Calculus Reveal
Plants Consumed by Brazilian Shell Mound
Builders ........................................... 279
Célia H.C. Boyadjian and Sabine Eggers
Chapter 22 Landscape and Use of Plants by Southern and
Southeastern Brazilian Shell Mound Builders ........ 289
Rita Scheel-Ybert
References .................................................... 301
Contributors .................................................. 355
Index ......................................................... 359
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