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Since the year 2000, Florida Atlantic University has been conducting interdisciplinary research to understand the complex interactions between human groups and their environments. In this article, we report preliminary results of our research that combines ethnography, archaeology (survey and excavations), and the natural sciences. This approach is necessary to understand the co-evolutionary relationships among such dimensions as the human exploitation of nature, economic and political formations and social organization. The final results will provide new information to explain the local patterns of change and continuity and contribute to the literature on the evolution of human societies in the New World.