ISBN:
9781845530808
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (223 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Structured Worlds : The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action
DDC:
306.3/64
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Hunter-gatherer societies are constrained by their environment and the technologies available to them. However, until now the role of culture in foraging communities has not been widely considered. ''Structured Worlds'' examines the role of cosmology, values, and perceptions in the archaeological histories of hunter-fisher-gatherers. The essays examine a range of cultures - Mesolithic Europe, Siberia, Jomon Japan, the Northwest Coast, the northern Plains, and High Arctic of North America - to show the role of conceptual frameworks in subsistence and settlement, technology, mobility, migration
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Material Culture Perspectives on the Worldview of Northern Hunter-Gatherers; 3. Humans, Material Culture and Landscape: Outline to an Understanding of Developments in Worldviews on the Scandinavian Peninsula, ca. 10,000-4500 BP; 4. Cosmology and Everyday Perception in Northwest Coast Production, Reproduction, and Settlement; 5. The Structured World of the Niitsitapi: The Landscape as Historical Archive among Hunter-Gatherers of the Northern Plains
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Landscape Learning and Lithic Technology: Seasonal Mobility, Enculturation and Tool Apprenticeship among the Early Palaeo-Eskimos7. Making Space in the Late Mesolithic of Britain; 8. Why Does Difference Matter? The Creation of Personhood and the Categorisation of Food among Prehistoric Fisher-Gatherer-Hunters of Northern Europe; 9. Using Worldwide Samples in Understanding the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Northern Europe; 10. Figurines, Circular Settlements and Jomon Worldviews; 11. The Involution of Complexity in Jomon Japan; 12. Conclusion; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
