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Environmental Rebound and the Disruption of Indigenous Land Management following European Colonization of Southern New England

Weitzel2018_EnvReboundChp

Code and Data for the book chapter "Environmental Rebound and the Disruption of Indigenous Land Management following European Colonization of Southern New England" by Elic M. Weitzel

Author of the repository

Elic M. Weitzel

Contents

• Data on return rates for relevant faunal species in southern New England
  • ShellfishReturnRates.csv (data from Thomas 2008)
  • TerrestrialReturnRates.csv (data from Thomas 2008)
• Data (NISP, MNI, and weight) on taxonomic abundance of relevant faunal species in southern New England
  • BlockIsland.csv (data from Bellantoni 1987)
  • GreenwichMonhantic.csv (data from Bernstein 1993 and Vasta 2007)
• R Function for generating a 95% confidence interval around an abundance index value based on iterative sampling from bone counts
  • Weitzel_EnvReboundChp_Function.R
• R Script for generating Figures 1-6
  • Weitzel_EnvReboundChp_Figures.R

References

Bellantoni, Nicholas F. 1987 Faunal Resource Availability and Prehistoric Cultural Selection on Block Island, Rhode Island. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.

Bernstein, David J. 1993 Prehistoric Subsistence on the Southern New England Coast: The Record from Narragansett Bay. New York: Academic Press.

Thomas, David H. 2008 Native American Landscapes of St. Catherine’s Island, Georgia. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 88. American Museum of Natural History.

Vasta, Meredith Laine 2007 What Ails Them? The Changing Faunal Utilization at the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation from the Late Woodland to the Early 19th Century. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.