Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Whispers on the Landscape -- PART I. CASE STUDIES -- 2. Human Impacts on Oyster Resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Denmark -- 3. Hunter-Gatherers, Endemic Island Mammals, and the Historical Ecology of California's Channel Islands -- 4. Climate Change, Human Impacts on the Landscape, and Subsistence Specialization: Historical Ecology and Changes in Jomon Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways -- 5. Cumulative Actions and the Historical Ecology of Islands along the Georgia Coast -- 6. A Historical Ecological Perspective on Early Agriculture in the North American Southwest and Northwest Mexico -- 7. Monumental Shell Mounds as Persistent Places in Southern Coastal Brazil -- 8. To Become a Mountain Hunter: Flexible Core Values and Subsistence Hunting among Reservation-Era Blackfeet -- PART II. COMMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS -- 9. Forging Collaborations between Ecology and Historical Ecology -- 10. Observations about the Historical Ecology of Small-Scale Societies -- 11. Epilogue: Contingency in the Environments of Foraging Societies -- Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.