Continent of Hunter-Gatherers

Continent of Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Harry Lourandos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1997-02-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521359467

This book challenges traditional perceptions of Australian Aboriginal prehistory: that the environment is the major determinant of hunter-gatherers; that Aborigines were egalitarian and culturally homogeneous and therefore experienced few economic and demographic changes. Harry Lourandos argues that the social and economic processes of hunter-gatherers were complex and that the prehistoric period was dynamic and revolutionary. Lourandos presents prehistoric data, reviews archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, and analyses environmental, demographic and socially-oriented perspectives - drawing from them an original hypothesis. He addresses initial colonisation, the role of Tasmanian Aborigines, the role of fire, faunal extinctions, the intensification debate, horticultural origins, plant exploitation, and the significance of Australian prehistory in the study of other prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies.

Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies

Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies
Author: Carmel Schrire
Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Limited
Total Pages: 299
Release: 1984
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780126291803

Selections from the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Hunter-Gatherers, Bad Homburg, Federal Republic of Germany, June 13-16, 1983 ; Paper by C. Schrire and R. Jones annotated separately.

Hunter-Gatherers

Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2001-03-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521776721

This 2001 volume is an interdisciplinary text on hunter-gatherer populations world-wide.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Vicki Cummings
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 1361
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0191025275

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I)

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I)
Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040282881

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition.Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History, Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property, Power and Ideology

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II)

Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II)
Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040287581

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America and reflect theoretically on the hunter-gatherer condition.Volume 1: Hunters and Gatherers - History, Evolution and Social ChangeVolume II: Hunters and Gatherers - Property, Power and Ideology

The Foraging Spectrum

The Foraging Spectrum
Author: R. J. Kelly
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2007-12-31
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange, gender relations, division of labour, marriage, descent and political organisation. By considering the actual, not imagined, reasons behind diverse behaviour this book argues for a revision of many archaeological models of prehistory. From the reviews "[A]n excellent overview of key issues in hunter-gatherer studies." Alan Barnard in American Ethnologist "Not since Man the Hunter has there been such a synthesis and such a mix of stimulating ideas. This will be the authoritative work on hunter/gatherers for a good number of years." Brian Hayden in Canadian Journal of Archaeology "[A]uthoritative, comprehensive, and highly readable. . . . A well-worn and heavily annotated copy should be the companion of anyone claiming an interest or expertise in present or past hunter-gatherers." Bruce Winterhalder in American Antiquity Prepublication praise "The Foraging Spectrum [is] a well-written, scrupulously researched synthesis of modern approaches to foraging behavior, both past and present." David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History "A tour de force of scholarship in behavioral ecology." Mathias Guenther, Wilfred Laurier University

Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers

Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Mark W Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131541595X

How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.

Hunters and Gatherers: History, evolution, and social change

Hunters and Gatherers: History, evolution, and social change
Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1988
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

A collection of papers given at a conference in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the Man the Hunter Symposium. The two volumes resulting from this conference present new information on the structure and evolution of hunter-gatherer societies.

Hunter Gatherer

Hunter Gatherer
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2024-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

What is Hunter Gatherer A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human being who lives an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which the majority or all of their food is obtained through the process of foraging. This means that they gather food from local naturally occurring sources, particularly edible wild plants, but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything else that is safe to eat, and/or by hunting game. Almost all omnivores engage in this behavior on a regular basis. There is a contrast between the more sedentary agricultural cultures and the hunter-gatherer communities. The agricultural societies are primarily dependent on the cultivation of crops and the breeding of domesticated animals for the production of food. However, the boundaries between the two modes of living are not entirely different on their own. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Hunter-gatherer Chapter 2: Mesolithic Chapter 3: Neolithic Chapter 4: Paleolithic Chapter 5: Prehistoric warfare Chapter 6: Middle Paleolithic Chapter 7: Paleo-Indians Chapter 8: Sedentism Chapter 9: Original affluent society Chapter 10: Prehistoric Korea Chapter 11: Prehistory Chapter 12: Sexual division of labour Chapter 13: Neolithic British Isles Chapter 14: Prehistoric technology Chapter 15: Primitive communism Chapter 16: Information economy Chapter 17: Christopher Boehm Chapter 18: Manuel Castells Chapter 19: Nurit Bird-David Chapter 20: Anna Belfer-Cohen Chapter 21: Prehistoric religion (II) Answering the public top questions about hunter gatherer. (III) Real world examples for the usage of hunter gatherer in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of hunter gatherer.