Anthropologists have long been interested in understanding how societies cope with risk and uncertainty in their subsistence economies. The topic has been of particular interest to the study of hunters and gatherers, where risk and uncertainty are often conceptualized as problems of the natural rather than social environment. This paper focuses on an archaeological site located in the interior of the island of Newfoundland that was inhabited by Amerindian people hunting caribou in the spring of the year, presumably because they were having difficulty procuring marine resources at the coast. The plight of these Amerindians, at a time when they were sharing the island with Paleo-Inuit peoples and climate change was undermining islanders’ access to critical marine resources, highlights the complex play between cultural adaptation, social and historical processes, and the natural environment.

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Birchy Lake 的糟糕经济年景

人类学家长期以来一直对了解社会如何应对生存经济中的风险和不确定性感兴趣。该主题对猎人和采集者的研究特别感兴趣，其中风险和不确定性通常被概念化为自然而不是社会环境的问题。本文重点介绍位于纽芬兰岛内陆的一处考古遗址，该遗址是美洲印第安人在今年春天猎杀驯鹿的栖息地，可能是因为他们在海岸获取海洋资源有困难。这些美洲印第安人的困境，当时他们与古因纽特人共享岛屿，气候变化正在破坏岛民获得重要海洋资源的机会，突出了文化适应之间的复杂作用，