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Title:
The Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers / edited by Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan, and Marek Zvelebil.
Author:
Cummings, Vicki, editor.
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

©2014
Call Number:
GN388 .O94 2014
Abstract:
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 comprehenive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagements between researchers and indigenous communities. -- from dust jacket.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780199551224
Series:
[Oxford handbooks]

Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xxviii, 1330 pages ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Analytical frames of reference in hunter-gatherer research / Defining hunter-gatherers : Enlightenment, Romantic, and social evolutionary perspectives / Historical frames of reference for 'hunter-gatherers' / Adaptive and ecological approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers / Historical and humanist perspectives on hunter-gatherers / Hunter-gatherer- fishers, ethnoarchaeology, and analogical reasoning / Man the hunter, woman the gatherer? : the impact of gender studies on hunter-gatherer research (a retrospective) / The first hunter-gatherers / The Neanderthals : evolution, palaeoecology, and extinction / Modern human origins in Africa : a review of the fossil, archaeological, and genetic perspectives on early Homo sapiens / Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in western Asia / The European Upper Palaeolithic / The Palaeolithic of northern Asia / Homo sapiens societies : South Asia / Homo sapiens societies in Indonesia and South-Eastern Asia / Hunter-gatherers in Australia : deep histories of continuity and change / Into the Americas : the earliest hunter-gatherers in an empty continent / Hunter-gatherers in the post-glacial world / Post-glacial transformations among hunter-gatherer societies in the Mediterranean and western Asia / Post-glacial transformations in Africa / Post-glacial transformations in South and South-East Asia / Post-Pleistocene transformations of hunter-gatherers in East Asia : the Jomon and Chulmun / Post-glacial transformations : Danubian Europe / Transformations? : the Mesolithic of north-west Europe / The resettlement of northern Europe / Prehistoric hunter-gatherer innovations / Stone tool technology / Art for the living / Social complexity / Ceramic technology / Coastal adaptations / Mortuary practices / Plant domestications / Animal domestications / Hunting and gathering in a farmers' world / The persistence of hunting and gathering : Neolithic western temperate and central Europe / The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst farmers in prehistory in Neolithic north-west Europe / The continuity of hunting and gathering in the Neolithic and beyond in Britain and Ireland / Forager-farmer contacts in northern Fennoscandia / The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst farmers in South-East Asia in prehistory and beyond / The emergence of forager-farmer interaction in North America / The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern' hunter-gatherers / Hunter-gatherer research traditions in southern Africa / Central African hunter-gatherer research traditions / Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions : Australia / From ethnohistory to ethnogenesis : a historiography of hunter-gatherer cultural anthropology in California and the Great Basin / Exploring hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America / Regional hunter-gatherer traditions in South-East Asia / Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions : South America / The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern' hunter-gatherers : north Japan (Ainu) / Hunter-gatherer transformations in northern Europe after 1500 AD / New approaches in the study of hunter-gatherers / Future directions in hunter-gatherer research : technology / Cultural transmission theory and hunter-gatherer archaeology / Archaeogenetics of Africa and of the African hunter-gatherers / Landscapes of mobility : the flow of place / Personhood and social relations / Materials, biographies, identities, experiences : new approaches to materials in hunter-gatherer studies / Hunter-gatherer religion and ritual / Hunter-gatherer gender and identity / Hunter-gatherer diet, subsistence, and foodways
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