1. Whispers on the landscape / Victor D. Thompson
Part I. Case studies: 2. Human impacts on oyster resources at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Denmark / Nicky Milner
3. Hunter-gatherers, endemic island mammals, and the historical ecology of California's Channel Islands / Torben C. Rick
4. Climate change, human impacts on the landscape, and subsistence specialization: historical ecology and changes in Jomon hunter-gatherer lifeways / Junko Habu and Mark E. Hall
5. Cumulative actions and the historical ecology of islands along the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson, John A. Turck, and Chester B. DePratter
6. A historical ecological perspective on early agriculture in the North American Southwest and Northwest Mexico / Patricia A. Gilman, Elizabeth M. Toney, and Nicholas H. Beale
7. Monumental shell mounds as persistent places in southern coastal Brazil / Paul R. Fish, Suzanne K. Fish, Paulo DeBlasis, and Maria Dulce Gaspar
8. To become a mountain hunter: flexible core values and subsistence hunting among reservation-era Blackfeet / María Nieves Zedeño
Part II: Comments and considerations: 9. Forging collaborations between ecology and historical ecology / Steven C. Pennings
10. Observations about the historical ecology of small-scale societies / Tristram R. Kidder
Epilogue: Contingency in the environments of foraging societies / William Balée.