ISBN:
9780191025266
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 1330 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.364
Keywords:
Hunting and gathering societies-Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Excavations (Archaeology)-Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies, undertaking detailed regional and thematic case-studies that span the archaeology, history and anthropology of hunter gatherers, concluding with an in-depth review of the main opportunities, research questions, and moral obligations that lie ahead.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Theoretical Frameworks -- Chapter 1 Analytical Frames of Reference in Hunter-Gatherer Research -- Chapter 2 Defining hunter-gatherers -- Chapter 3 Historical Frames of Reference for 'Hunter-Gatherers' -- Chapter 4 Adaptive and ecological approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers -- Chapter 5 Historical and humanist perspectives on hunter-gatherers -- Chapter 6 Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers, Ethnoarchaeology, and Analogical Reasoning -- Chapter 7 Man the Hunter, Woman the Gatherer? The Impact of Gender Studies on Hunter-Gatherer Research (A Retrospective) -- Part II The Earliest Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 8 The First Hunter-Gatherers -- Chapter 9 The Neanderthals Evolution, Palaeoecology, and Extinction -- Chapter 10 Modern human origins in Africa -- Chapter 11 Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in western Asia -- Chapter 12 The European Upper Palaeolithic -- Chapter 13 The Palaeolithic of Northern Asia -- Chapter 14 Homo sapiens societies -- Chapter 15 Homo Sapiens Societies in Indonesia and South-Eastern Asia -- Chapter 16 Hunter-Gatherers in Australia -- Chapter 17 Into The Americas -- Part III Post-glacial Colonizations and Transformations -- Chapter 18 Hunter-Gatherers in the Post-Glacial World -- Chapter 19 Post-glacial transformations among hunter-gatherer societies in the Mediterranean and western Asia -- Chapter 20 Post-glacial Transformations in Africa -- Chapter 21 Post-glacial transformations in South and South-East Asia -- Chapter 22 Post-Pleistocene Transformations of Hunter-Gatherers in East Asia -- Chapter 23 Post-Glacial Transformations -- Chapter 24 Transformations? The Mesolithic of north-west Europe.
