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employment
1 Service performed for pay or wages under a contract of hire.2 The number of people in an economy who provide services for pay under a contract (this includes both full-time and part-time workers in ...
paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Plays an important role in the interpretation of archaeological data. It chronicles past changes in climate and vegetation and can be used to predict potential human subsistence patterns, to date ...
Reconstruction of Diet
The acquisition of food is the first concern of all human societies. Not surprisingly, food-getting activities have played a central role in shaping the course of human history. The reconstruction ...
Seasonality Studies
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers and farmers, like their modern counterparts, lived their social, economic, and ritual lives in regular cycles that fluctuated throughout the year. These changes often ...
shell midden
[MC]An extensive rubbish heap consisting largely of shells discarded after the removal of the soft edible body portion, the result of many years of exploitation of marine resources as a main or ...
Subsistence Reference library
Steven Rosen
The Oxford Companion To Archaeology (2 ed.)
The reconstruction of ancient subsistence systems and the analysis of subsistence change have been the focus of a great deal
