 | Although many different theoretical frameworks have been utilized in
subsistence strategies, an evolutionary ecology approach has many distinct
advantages for studying subsistence. It
is a comprehensive and integrative treatment of behavior, but the primary
benefit is testability. Using
modeling to build hypotheses, these can then be compared empirically to
ethnographic or archaeological cases. If
derivations from the model are found, this can be explained within the
broader theoretical framework the models were built from, namely
evolutionary theory. The use of
evolutionary ecology to analyze Pacific faunal remains has yielded promising
results in recent years; this link is a collection of
precis on the subject. |
