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ing the prehistory of the eastern Columbia Plateau, and is a revealing example of how past peoples may have used animal resources amidst environmental change. Mobility was an important option in mitigating environmental risk in the past, which is sobering given that current trends in population abundance and density may render this strategy useless in certain geographic areas. In the chapter by Pei-Lin Yu and Jackie M. Cook, the authors develop techniques to infer the intensity of fish processing from lithic assemblages at sites where faunal remains might be absent or poorly preserved. By analyzing tabular fish-butchering tools from the Kettle Falls collection of northeastern Washington State, they show that high numbers of low-cost raw materials with relatively little retouch are characteristic of intensive salmon processing sites. They conclude that “[t]hese expedient but highperforming tools may have been a collective form of ‘site furniture’ left by women intending to recover them season after season” (p. 89). Yu and Cook’s research is important for documenting variability in the intensity of fish processing in different cultural contexts, and could have implications for documenting areas where salmon populations thrived in the past. Using lithic studies in this way may be of great interest to conservation biologists and wildlife managers. Kevin J. Lyons explains how to pick up the signature of past fisheries using ethnographic data and information about the life-histories of certain fish species in the Pend Orielle Basin. In this chapter, Lyons provides an excellent road map for determining The seven chapters in Rivers, Fish, and the People represent some of the most recent work in historical ecology on rivers associated with salmon populations in western North America, a resource of increasing conservation concern. One of the aims of historical ecology is to help solve current environmental and/or social problems by using a deep temporal perspective to understand human-environment interactions at different scales (Armstrong and Veteto 2015; Balée 2006; Szabó 2014). The archaeological record has much to offer historical ecology (Hayashida 2005), shown by Pei-Lin Yu and the contributors to this volume, in which they demonstrate how archaeological data can be used to better think about, interact with, and manage fisheries in the North American West. For example, Mark G. Plew and Stacey Guinn argue that the timing of different hunter-gatherer settlement patterns related to natural environmental perturbations that affected the productivity of the salmon fishery along the Snake River in southwestern Idaho. In short, they contend that a logistical foraging pattern coupled with intensive salmon fishing is best documented in the area during the late Holocene (2000–150 BP) because this period is characterized by less environmental disturbance. Conversely, preca. 2000 BP was characterized by seismic activity, fireinduced erosion, floods, and landslides that would have been pivotal in shaping the Snake River channel, but that would have led to poor habitat conditions for salmon. Thus, they posit, hunter-gatherers relied on more residential foraging during this period. This argument has important implications for understandRivers, Fish, and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West. Edited by Pei-Lin Yu. 2015. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 160 pp.

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Rivers, Fish, and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West. Edited by Pei-Lin Yu. 2015. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 160 pp.