Some Ecological Concepts and Their Implications ror Settlement Archaeology

In the field of archaeology there has been an increasing concern for the standardization of terminology, units of measurement, and theoretical concepts. At the same time there has been a tremendous influx of new ideas, challenges to established concepts and theories, and a rethinking of the place of archaeology in the social sciences. Much of this re-evaluation has come about as a result of new insights into the nature of human society and, perhaps more importantly, a general opening up of the field in the sense that ideas, theories, and techniques developed in the social, biological, physical, and mathematical sciences are being introduced and tested for their application in the solution of anthropological and archaeological questions. One area which has become increasingly important as a source of concepts and theory is the field of biological ecology. This discussion considers two of these ecological concepts (seasonality, econiche) and proposes a sequence of socio-ecological units (individual, group, population, society, eco-community, eco-system) which it is believed are useful in the study of prehistoric social and settlement systems

Archaeology · Biology · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics) · Geography · Human settlement · Population · Prehistory · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Terminology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · History

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