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Introduction 1. Correlation is Not Enough Building Better Arguments in the Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions Daniel A. Contreras Case Studies 2. Convergence and Divergence as Problems of Explanation In Land Use Histories – Two Mexican Examples Aleksander Borejsza and Arthur A. Joyce Alluvial geoarchaeology 3. From the river to the fields: the contribution of micromorphology to the study of hydro-agrosystems in semi-arid environments (Phoenix, Arizona) Louise Purdue Micromorphology and agrosystems 4. Regional Climate, Local Paleoenvironment, and Early Cultivation in the middle Wadi el-Hasa, Jordan Daniel A. Contreras and Cheryl Makarewicz Paleolandscape Reconstruction in Archaeology 5. Human-Environment Interactions through the Epipalaeolithic of Eastern Jordan Matthew D. Jones, Lisa Maher, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, and Louise Martin Integrating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data through on-site and off-site stratigraphy 6. Living on the Edge: Pre-Columbian Habitation of the Desert Periphery of the Chicama Valley, Per Ari Caramanica and Michele Koons Landscape Paleobotany7. A fine-grained analysis of terra preta formation: understanding causality through microartifactual and chemical indices in the Central Amazon Anna T. Browne Ribeiro Pedology for Archaeology 8. External Impacts on Internal Dynamics: Effects of Paleoclimatic and Demographic Variability on Acorn Exploitation along the Central California Coast Brian F. Codding and Terry L. Jones Spatially Explicit Behavioral Ecology 9. Describing Microenvironments Used for Nomadic Pastoralist Habitation Sites: Explanatory Tools for Surfaces, Places, and Networks Joshua Wright Simple Suitability Rasters as Tools for Archaeological Discovery 10. Soil Geochemistry and the Role of Nutrient Values in Understanding Archaic State Formation: A Case Study from Kaup, Maui, Hawaiian Islands Alexander Baer Soil Geochemical Analyses in Archaeology Discussion 11. Epilogue Frances Hayashida
