B Fitzhugh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Fitzhugh |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Fitzhugh |
| SIGNATURE | FITZHUGH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5347-2237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Little Ice Age and Colonialism
Native communities confronted Eurasian colonialism in ways that reflected their own unique histories, social organizations and cultural values. In this paper, we are interested in how such legacies shaped Indigenous survivance, the active presence of Indigenous peoples on the landscape or the refusal to disappear or assimilate into settler society. We seek to understand the climate changes that Native Alaskan Sugpiaq people faced during the Littl…
New data and synthesis of ΔR estimates from the northern Pacific Ocean
We present new data on regional correction factor (ΔR) conducted for Chukotka, the Commander Islands, and the western Aleutian Islands and summarize data previously published for the other parts of the region. Paired radiocarbon dates of coeval marine and terrestrial materials from the archaeological site Kaniskak were obtained in Chukotka, and one such pair was analyzed from Shemya Island (western Aleutians). Three samples of sea otter ( Enhydra…
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene
Using 14 proxy human population time series from around the North Pacific (Alaska, Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands), we evaluate the possibility that the North Pacific climate and marine ecosystem includes a millennial-scale regime shift cycle affecting subsistence and migration. We develop both visual and statistical methods for addressing questions about relative population growth and movement in the past. We introduce and explore the use of a T…
Introduction to the Paleoecology of Subarctic and Arctic Seas (Pesas)
The Paleolithic of Maritime Northeast Asia and the Search for Maritime Beringians
Cape Krusenstern Societies
Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia
The Circumpolar North is generally recognized as a challenging environment to inhabit and yet, we know relatively little about how people managed their welfare in these places. Here, we add to the understanding of maritime hunter-gatherers in the subarctic North Pacific through a comparative approach that synthesizes biogeographic and archaeological data from the Kuril Islands. We conclude that our faunal, ceramic and lithic evidence support expe…
Human ecodynamics
Human ecodynamics (H.E.) refers to processes of stability, resilience, and change in socio-ecological relationships or systems. H.E. research involves interdisciplinary study of the human condition as it affects and is affected by the rest of the non-human world. In this paper, we review the intellectual history of the human ecodynamics concept over the past several decades, as it has emerged out of classical ecology, anthropology, behavioral eco…
Wound ballistics
Roundtable
Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific
Controlling for Landform Age When Determining the Settlement History of the Kuril Islands
Archaeological investigations of settlement patterns in dynamic landscapes can be strongly biased by the evolution of the Earth's surface. The Kuril Island volcanic arc exemplifies such a dynamic landscape, where landscape-modifying geological forces were active during settlement, including sea-level changes, tectonic emergence, volcanic eruptive processes, coastal aggradation, and dune formation. With all these ongoing processes, in this paper w…
The Last Imaginary Place
John F. Hoffecker and Scott A. Elias
Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East
This article presents analyses of lithic and zooarchaeological data from the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to better understand the effects of island isolation and biodiversity on human settlement and subsistence. Using the theory of island biogeography, we examine predictions about lithic raw material use, trade, mobility, and foraging behavior for different island groups. This study finds convincing evidence that ins…
Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago
Islands in the North Pacific were first colonized by maritime hunter-gatherers sometime between the terminal Pleistocene and mid-Holocene. When the colonists came and from where remains a matter of speculation. This article introduces the Tanginak Spring site, a deeply stratified early Ocean Bay I site on Sitkalidak Island in southeast Kodiak. Lithic raw materials and technologies are examined to evaluate the possibility that this site was first …
The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Introduction
Residential and Logistical Strategies in the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago
Risk and Invention in Human Technological Evolution
Introduction
Wound ballistics
Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East
This article presents analyses of lithic and zooarchaeological data from the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to better understand the effects of island isolation and biodiversity on human settlement and subsistence. Using the theory of island biogeography, we examine predictions about lithic raw material use, trade, mobility, and foraging behavior for different island groups. This study finds convincing evidence that ins…
Human ecodynamics
Human ecodynamics (H.E.) refers to processes of stability, resilience, and change in socio-ecological relationships or systems. H.E. research involves interdisciplinary study of the human condition as it affects and is affected by the rest of the non-human world. In this paper, we review the intellectual history of the human ecodynamics concept over the past several decades, as it has emerged out of classical ecology, anthropology, behavioral eco…
Introduction
Controlling for Landform Age When Determining the Settlement History of the Kuril Islands
Archaeological investigations of settlement patterns in dynamic landscapes can be strongly biased by the evolution of the Earth's surface. The Kuril Island volcanic arc exemplifies such a dynamic landscape, where landscape-modifying geological forces were active during settlement, including sea-level changes, tectonic emergence, volcanic eruptive processes, coastal aggradation, and dune formation. With all these ongoing processes, in this paper w…
Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago
Islands in the North Pacific were first colonized by maritime hunter-gatherers sometime between the terminal Pleistocene and mid-Holocene. When the colonists came and from where remains a matter of speculation. This article introduces the Tanginak Spring site, a deeply stratified early Ocean Bay I site on Sitkalidak Island in southeast Kodiak. Lithic raw materials and technologies are examined to evaluate the possibility that this site was first …
Roundtable
Introduction
Risk and Invention in Human Technological Evolution
Introduction
Residential and Logistical Strategies in the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago
The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East
This article presents analyses of lithic and zooarchaeological data from the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East to better understand the effects of island isolation and biodiversity on human settlement and subsistence. Using the theory of island biogeography, we examine predictions about lithic raw material use, trade, mobility, and foraging behavior for different island groups. This study finds convincing evidence that ins…
Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago
Islands in the North Pacific were first colonized by maritime hunter-gatherers sometime between the terminal Pleistocene and mid-Holocene. When the colonists came and from where remains a matter of speculation. This article introduces the Tanginak Spring site, a deeply stratified early Ocean Bay I site on Sitkalidak Island in southeast Kodiak. Lithic raw materials and technologies are examined to evaluate the possibility that this site was first …
The Last Imaginary Place
John F. Hoffecker and Scott A. Elias
Controlling for Landform Age When Determining the Settlement History of the Kuril Islands
Archaeological investigations of settlement patterns in dynamic landscapes can be strongly biased by the evolution of the Earth's surface. The Kuril Island volcanic arc exemplifies such a dynamic landscape, where landscape-modifying geological forces were active during settlement, including sea-level changes, tectonic emergence, volcanic eruptive processes, coastal aggradation, and dune formation. With all these ongoing processes, in this paper w…
Resilience and the population history of the Kuril Islands, Northwest Pacific
Human ecodynamics
Human ecodynamics (H.E.) refers to processes of stability, resilience, and change in socio-ecological relationships or systems. H.E. research involves interdisciplinary study of the human condition as it affects and is affected by the rest of the non-human world. In this paper, we review the intellectual history of the human ecodynamics concept over the past several decades, as it has emerged out of classical ecology, anthropology, behavioral eco…
Wound ballistics
Roundtable
Biogeography and adaptation in the Kuril Islands, Northeast Asia
The Circumpolar North is generally recognized as a challenging environment to inhabit and yet, we know relatively little about how people managed their welfare in these places. Here, we add to the understanding of maritime hunter-gatherers in the subarctic North Pacific through a comparative approach that synthesizes biogeographic and archaeological data from the Kuril Islands. We conclude that our faunal, ceramic and lithic evidence support expe…
Cape Krusenstern Societies
New data and synthesis of ΔR estimates from the northern Pacific Ocean
We present new data on regional correction factor (ΔR) conducted for Chukotka, the Commander Islands, and the western Aleutian Islands and summarize data previously published for the other parts of the region. Paired radiocarbon dates of coeval marine and terrestrial materials from the archaeological site Kaniskak were obtained in Chukotka, and one such pair was analyzed from Shemya Island (western Aleutians). Three samples of sea otter ( Enhydra…
Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene
Using 14 proxy human population time series from around the North Pacific (Alaska, Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands), we evaluate the possibility that the North Pacific climate and marine ecosystem includes a millennial-scale regime shift cycle affecting subsistence and migration. We develop both visual and statistical methods for addressing questions about relative population growth and movement in the past. We introduce and explore the use of a T…
Introduction to the Paleoecology of Subarctic and Arctic Seas (Pesas)
The Paleolithic of Maritime Northeast Asia and the Search for Maritime Beringians
The Little Ice Age and Colonialism
Native communities confronted Eurasian colonialism in ways that reflected their own unique histories, social organizations and cultural values. In this paper, we are interested in how such legacies shaped Indigenous survivance, the active presence of Indigenous peoples on the landscape or the refusal to disappear or assimilate into settler society. We seek to understand the climate changes that Native Alaskan Sugpiaq people faced during the Littl…
Geography (17 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (9 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works)