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Introduction: Ecological research is thriving in archaeology. The field has seen a proliferation of new techniques for gathering information about past environments, an increasing research emphasis on the nature of human interaction with these environments, and the adoption of generalizations, concepts, and jargon from biological ecology. A survey and synthesis of all these developments is beyond the scope of this paper: a completely objective treatment of the topic is beyond the powers of this author, who has his own ideas about what ecological approaches in archaeology should be. The following, therefore, represents an overview of selected trends in ecological archaeology with an emphasis on certain theoretical issues.
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