CONTENTS Preface 1. The Historical Ecology of Global Climate Change 1 2. Historical Ecology of the North Atlantic 14 3. Historical Ecology and Future Explorations 30 4. Early Human Settlements as an Opportunity for Infectious Microorganisms 57 5. Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution and Dispersal 80 6. Human Ecology in Anthropology: Past, Present, and Prospects 93 7. Tools and Methods for Historical Research 115 8. Subsistence Strategies and Early Human Population History: An Evolutionary Ecological Perspective 133 9. Building the Contextual Milieu: An Approach to Data Collection and Interpretation 157 10: Landscape Ecology 185 11. Prehistoric, Historic, and Present Settlement Patterns Related to Ecological Hierarchy 194 12. From Holistic Landscape Synthesis to Transdisciplinary Landscape Management 209 13. Cultural Persistence and Environmental Change 241 Bibliography 290 Index 293