Ben Fitzhugh (PhD 1996, Michigan)
Research Interests:
Evolutionary ecology, complex hunter-gatherers, technological, economic, social,
and political evolution, settlement systems; Alaska, Russian Far East.
"My interests revolve around the study of technological, economic, social and political evolution of maritime hunter-gatherers using archaeological data and methods. These interests have led me to investigate variables affecting island colonization, maritime foraging strategies, changes in subsistence economy, changes in mobility and sedentism, technological development and intensification, 'origins' of institutionalized social inequality and stratification, intensification of warfare, and the development of indigenous slavery in the North Pacific. I approach this broad research focus from an anthropological perspective utilizing principles of human biogeography and evolutionary ecology. A strong component of this research involves the generation and/or expansion of evolutionary and ecological theory to help explain these different facets of human evolution."
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Selected Publications:
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2012
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Hazards, Impacts, and Resilience among Hunter-Gatherers of the Kuril Islands. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Answers from Archaeology, J. Cooper and P. Sheets, eds. Boulder: University of Colorado Press. Pp. 19-42.
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2011
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Fitzhugh, Ben, S. Colby Phillips, and Erik Gjesfjeld. Modeling Variability in Hunter-Gatherer Information Networks: An Archaeological Case Study from the Kuril Islands. In, Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Band Adaptations, R. Whallon, W. Lovis, and R. Hitchcock, eds. UCLA Cotson Institute for Archaeology, Los Angeles. Pp. 85-115.
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2010
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Fitzhugh, Ben & Douglas J. Kennett. Seafaring intensity and island–mainland interaction along the Pacific Coast of North America. In: The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring, eds. A. Anderson, J.H. Barrett & K.V. Boyle. (McDonald Institute Monographs.) Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 69-80.
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2009
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"Case study in technological evolution: innovation and experimentation in and with the archaeological record," by Ben Fitzhugh and A. Kate Trusler. In Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution, Stephen Shennan, editor. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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2004
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"Colonizing the Kodiak Archipelago: Trends in raw material use and lithic technologies at the Tanginak Spring site." Arctic Anthropology 41(1):14-40.
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2004
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"Archaeological Paleobiogeography in the Russian Far East: The Kuril Islands and Sakhalin in Comparative Perspective." Ben Fitzhugh, Scotty Moore, Chris Lockwood, and Cristie Boone. Asian Perspective 43(1):92-122.
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2003
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The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological
Evidence from the North Pacific. Kluwer Academic- Plenum Publishers. 332 pp.
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2002
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Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in
Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems. B. Fitzhugh and J. Habu, eds. Kluwer-Plenum.
442 pp.
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2002
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"Archaeology in the Kuril Islands: Advances in the Study of
Human Paleobiogeography and Northwest Pacific Prehistory." Ben Fitzhugh,
Valery O. Shubin, Kaoru Tezuka, Yoshihiro Ishizuka, and Carole A. S. Mandryk.
Arctic Anthropology 39(1-2):69-94.
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