Papers by Grant S. McCall
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
This paper is a synthetic overview of some of the threats, risks, and integrated water management... more This paper is a synthetic overview of some of the threats, risks, and integrated water management elements in freshwater ecosystems. The paper provides some discussion of human needs and water conservation issues related to freshwater systems: (1) introduction and background; (2) water basics and natural cycles; (3) freshwater roles in human cultures and civilizations; (4) water as a biosphere cornerstone; (5) climate as a hydrospheric ‘game changer’ from the perspective of freshwater; (6) human-induced stressors’ effects on freshwater ecosystem changes (pollution, habitat fragmentation, etc.); (7) freshwater ecosystems’ biological resources in the context of unsustainable exploitation/overexploitation; (8) invasive species, parasites, and diseases in freshwater systems; (9) freshwater ecosystems’ vegetation; (10) the relationship between human warfare and water. All of these issues and more create an extremely complex matrix of stressors that plays a driving role in changing freshw...
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Marine Technology Society Journal, Jun 8, 2022
The Estuarine Ecological Knowledge Network (EEKN) brings together scientists and coastal fishing ... more The Estuarine Ecological Knowledge Network (EEKN) brings together scientists and coastal fishing communities in seeking new ways forward for Earth's major river deltas and estuaries, including the Mississippi (United States), Rio Grande (United States), Danube (Romania/Ukraine), Ganges (India/Bangladesh), Niger (Nigeria), and Mekong (Vietnam) river deltas, and the Patos Lagoon (Brazil). Such environments are universally understood as crucial for the biological productivity of oceans and they are home to hundreds of millions of human inhabitants, many of whom directly depend on that marine richness in terms of the operation of their socioeconomic systems. As human-induced climate change and its consequences for Earth's oceans and coastlines increases, estuarine ecosystems are particularly threatened by problems such as sea-level rise, coastal erosion, saltwater intrusion, and increased impacts from tropical storms. These problems are often amplified by human dynamics of environmental degradation, including overfishing, pollution, and large-scale landscape modification projects. The EEKN is designed to enhance communication and cooperation between fishing communities, scientists, and policy makers in learning about the complexity of both ecological and socioeconomic systems in estuaries and deltas, and in developing more effective policy for managing fisheries, protecting and restoring coastlines, and increasing the resilience of coastal communities.
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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017
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Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies, 2019
Includes bibliographical references and index.Edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall.Ex... more Includes bibliographical references and index.Edited by Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall.Examining lithic technology in sedentary societies around the world and showcasing information that in-depth, cutting-edge, lithic analytical techniques provides. Highlighting important contributions to the field of lithics and how they can improve the study of sedentary Mesoamerican societies, as well as other ancient societies around the world--provided by publisher.Lithics in sedentary societies: themes, methods, and directions / Rachel A. Horowitz and Grant S. McCall -- Urban lithics: the role of stone tools in the Indus civilization and at Harappa / Mary A. Davis -- The importance of being ad hoc: patterns and implications of expedient lithic production in the Bronze Age in Israel / Francesca Manclossi and Steven A. Rosen -- Leaving no stone unturned: expedient lithic production among preclassic households of San Estevan, Belize and K'o and Hamontún, Guatemala / Jason S. R. Paling -- The economic organization of the extraction and production of utilitarian chert tools in the Mopan Valley, Belize / Rachel A. Horowitz -- Chert at Chalcatzingo: implications of knapping strategies and technological organization for formative economics / Grant S. McCall, Rachel A. Horowitz, Dan M. Healan, and David C. Grove -- Unraveling sociopolitical organization using lithic data: a case study from an agricultural society in the American Southwest / Fumiyasu Arakawa -- Using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to source Burlington chert from the Carson site, 22CO505, Coahoma County, Mississippi / Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Grant S. McCall, Theodore Marks, and James Enloe -- Stone age economics: efficiency, blades, specialization, and obsolescence / John C. Whittake
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Before Modern Humans, 2016
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Strategies for Quantitative Research, 2018
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Edinburgh University Press, 2017
Because this book involves two very different academic disciplines, political philosophy and anth... more Because this book involves two very different academic disciplines, political philosophy and anthropology, some background about the relevant topics in each one is helpful. In this chapter, Section 1 introduces the relevant political theory. Section 2 discusses some of the anthropological methods and conceptual issues involved in the examination of the evidence relevant to these philosophical arguments. Section 3 discusses how the state and the state of nature are defined in relation to each other. Section 4 addresses some responses this book is likely to receive. Section 5 discusses the relationship between this book and modern indigenous peoples.
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Edinburgh University Press, 2017
This chapter shows how “the Hobbesian hypothesis” (the claim that everyone is better off in a sta... more This chapter shows how “the Hobbesian hypothesis” (the claim that everyone is better off in a state society with a private property system than they could reasonably expect to be in any society without either of those institutions) appeared in Eighteenth-Century political theory. It shows how disagreement about the truth of the hypothesis produced virtually no debate. David Hume, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and others asserted its supposedly obvious truth without providing evidence. Lord Shaftesbury, the Baron de Montesquieu, and Thomas Paine voiced scepticism but also provided little evidence. Others, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau talked about similar issues without clearly taking a position on the hypothesis.
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Edinburgh University Press, 2017
This chapter explores how Hobbesian ideas affected the development of anthropology and how “the H... more This chapter explores how Hobbesian ideas affected the development of anthropology and how “the Hobbesian hypotheses” (the claim that everyone is better off in a state society with a private property system than they could reasonably expect to be in any society without either of those institutions) has appeared in the history of anthropological thought and in popular anthropology. Although many of the issues discussed remain the subject of debate in anthropology, to some extent, this discussion reveals how anthropologists overcame Hobbesian influence as they gradually improved their understanding of small-scale societies.
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African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie, 2000
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Lithic Technology, 2011
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plain in western Namibia. These excavations revealed Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological remains dated
between 130–45 ka through ostrich eggshell amino acid racemization and Later Stone Age (LSA) archaeological
remains dating from around 5 ka through AMS 14C through the period of colonial contact. This paper describes
our field methods and offers information concerning site formation and post-depositional processes. In describing
the lithic assemblage, this paper proposes two distinct phases of the MSA and subtle change over time in the LSA
lithic technology. The earlier MSA phase is characterized by more expedient knapping strategies, the use of local
vein quartz, and very low frequencies of end-products. The later MSA phase is characterized by more elaborate
core reduction strategies, the exploitation of more distant dolerite, and higher frequencies of technical end-products.
This report also discusses the characteristics of LSA ostrich eggshell beads, ceramics, and historic objects.
Lithic analysis focused on sedentary societies, especially in places like Mesoamerica, has previously been neglected mostly because of the high frequency of informal tools, but such bias limits the ways in which both lithic production and economic organization are investigated. Bringing the importance of studying such technologies to the fore and emphasizing the vital anthropological questions that lithics can answer, Lithic Technologies in Sedentary Societies is a valuable resource for scholars and students of lithic technology and sedentary, complex societies.