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Author: Geoff Bailey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-03-24
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780521237420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A series of case studies which combine an awareness of recent developments in hunter-gatherer theory with a commitment to the analysis and interpretation of prehistoric material.
Author: Kenneth E. Sassaman
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-10-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0816535043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The remains of hunter-gatherer groups are the most commonly discovered archaeological resources in the world, and their study constitutes much of the archaeological research done in North America. In spite of paradigm-shifting discoveries elsewhere in the world that may indicate that hunter-gatherer societies were more complex than simple remnants of a prehistoric past, North American archaeology by and large hasn’t embraced these theories, instead maintaining its general neoevolutionary track. This book will change that. Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume seeks to set a new course for hunter-gatherer archaeology by organizing the chapters around three themes. The first section offers diverse views of the role of human agency, challenging the premise that hunter-gatherer societies were bound by their interactions with the natural world. The second section considers how society and culture are constituted. Chapters in the final section take the long view of the historical process, examining how cultural diversity arises out of interaction and the continuity of ritual practices. A closing commentary by H. Martin Wobst underscores the promise of an archaeology of foragers that does not associate foraging with any particular ideology or social structure but instead invites inquiry into counterintuitive alternatives. Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process seeks to blur the divisions between prehistory and history, between primitive and modern, and between hunter-gatherers and people in other societies. Because it offers alternatives to the dominant discourse and contributes to the agenda of hunter-gatherer research, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of foraging peoples.
Author: Ben Fitzhugh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1461505437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume includes new research on the theoretical implications regarding the mechanisms of change in the geographical distribution of hunter-gatherer settlement and land use. It focuses on the long-term changes in the hunter-gatherer settlement on a global scale, including research from several continents. It will be of interest to archaeologists and cultural anthropologists working in the field of the forager/ collector model throughout the world.
Author: Bill Finlayson
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2010-10-21
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new critical perspective on the dominant narratives of the 'Neolithic Revolution', with an emphasis on local histories and hunter-gatherer dynamics.
Author: RABIGER
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2014-06-28
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1483299236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prehistoric Hunters-Gatherers : The Emergence of Cultural Complexity
Author: Ben Fitzhugh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780306477539
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.
Author: Bill Finlayson
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2017-06-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 178570589X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This thought provoking collection of new research papers explores the extent of variation amongst hunting and gathering peoples past and present and the considerable analytical challenges presented by this diversity. This problem is especially important in archaeology, where increasing empirical evidence illustrates ways of life that are not easily encompassed within the range of variation recognised in the contemporary world of surviving hunter-gatherers. Put simply, how do past hunter-gatherers fit into our understandings of hunter-gatherers? Furthermore, given the inevitable archaeological reliance on analogy, it is important to ask whether conceptions of hunter-gatherers based on contemporary societies restrict our comprehension of past diversity and of how this changes over the long term. Discussion of hunter-gatherers shows them to be varied and flexible, but modelling of contemporary hunter-gatherers has not only reduced them into essential categories, but has also portrayed them as static and without history.It is often said that the study of hunter-gatherers can provide insight into past forms of social organisation and behaviour; unfortunately too often it has limited our understandings of these societies. In contrast, contributors here explore past hunter-gather diversity over time and space to provide critical perspectives on general models of ‘hunter-gatherers’ and attempt to provide new perspectives on hunter-gatherer societies from the greater diversity present in the past.
Author: Theron Douglas Price
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1985-01-28
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection of theoretical papers and case studies on the themes of intensification, sedentism, affluence and the emergence of social inequality; paper by H. Lourandos separately annotated.
Author: Bishnupriya Basak
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789386552426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the last decade or so. There has been substantial development in understanding the behavioral patterns of the pasthunter-gatherers societies. Although images of existing hunting-gathering populations continue to be used as analogues in drawing inferences about the past, there has been considerable shift in the analyses of both the archaeological record and the ethnographic data as well as more meaningful engagement with inquiries in territoriality, mobility strategies, and the use of raw materials by past hunter-gatherers.
