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

Herausgegeben von Cummings, Vicki; Jordan, Peter; Zvelebil, Marek

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1360
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 73mm
• Gewicht: 1897g
• ISBN-13: 9780199551224
• ISBN-10: 0199551227
• Artikelnr.: 40487639

Autorenporträt

Vicki Cummings is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire. Peter Jordan is Director of the Arctic Centre at the University of Groningen. Marek Zvelebil was Professor of European Prehistory at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Contributors
* List of Figures
* List of Tables
* Introduction: the Oxford handbook of the archaeology and anthropology
of hunter-gatherers
* Part I: Theoretical Frameworks
* 1: Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings: Analytical frames of reference in
hunter-gatherer research
* 2: Alan Barnard: Defining hunter-gatherers: Enlightenment, Romantic
and social evolutionary perspectives
* 3: Mark Pluciennik: Historical frames of reference for
'hunter-gatherers'
* 4: Raven Garvey and Robery Bettinger: Adaptive and ecological
approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers
* 5: Aubrey Cannon: Historical and humanist perspectives on
hunter-gatherers
* 6: Paul J. Lane: Hunter-gatherer-fishers, ethnoarchaeology and
analogical reasoning
* 7: Kathleen Sterling: Man the hunter, woman the gatherer? The impact
of gender studies on hunter-gatherer research (a retrospective)
* Part II: The Earliest Hunter-Gatherers
* 8: Jennie Robinson: Introduction: the first hunter-gatherers
* 9: João Zilhão: The Neanderthals: evolution, paleoecology and
extinction
* 10: K.L. Kuykendall and I.S. Heyerdahl-King: Modern human origins in
Africa: a review of the fossil, archaeological, and genetic
perspectives on early Homo sapiens
* 11: Ofer Bar-Yosef: Upper Palaeolithic hunters-gatherers in western
Asia
* 12: Paul Pettitt: The European Upper Palaeolithic
* 13: Anatoly P. Derevianko, Sergei V. Markin and Andrei V. Tabarev:
The Palaeolithic of northern Asia
* 14: Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin: Homo sapiens societies:
South Asia
* 15: Sue O'Connor and David Bulbeck: Homo sapiens societies in
Indonesia and south-eastern Asia
* 16: Iain Davidson: Hunter-gatherers in Australia: deep histories of
continuity and change
* 17: Marcel Kornfeld and Gustavo Politis: Into the Americas: the
earliest hunter-gatherers in an empty continent
* Part III: Post-glacial Colonizations and Transformations
* 18: Vicki Cummings: Hunter-gatherers in the post-glacial world
* 19: Andrew M. T. Moore: Post-glacial transformations among
hunter-gatherer societies in the Mediterranean and western Asia
* 20: Andrew B. Smith: Post-glacial transformations in Africa
* 21: Ryan Rabett and Sacha Jones: Post-glacial transformations in
south and south-east Asia
* 22: Junko Habu: Post-Pleistocene transformations of hunter-gatherers
in east Asia: the Jomon and Chulmun
* 23: Ji%rí Svoboda: Post-glacial transformations: Danubian Europe
* 24: Graeme Warren: Transformations? The Mesolithic of north-west
Europe
* 25: Felix Riede: The resettlement of northern Europe
* Part IV: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Innovations
* 26: Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings: Prehistoric hunter-gatherer
innovations
* 27: Steven L. Kuhn and Amy E. Clark: Stone tool technology
* 28: J. D. Lewis-Williams: Art for the living
* 29: Brian Hayden: Social complexity
* 30: Peter Hommel: Ceramic technology
* 31: C. R. Wickham-Jones: Coastal adaptations
* 32: Liv Nilsson Stutz: Mortuary practices
* 33: David R. Harris: Plant domestications
* 34: Alan K. Outram: Animal domestications
* Part V: The Persistence of Hunting and Gathering Amongst Farmers in
Prehistory and Beyond
* 35: Vicki Cummings: Hunting and gathering in a farmers' world
* 36: Detlef Gronenborn: The persistence of hunting and gathering:
Neolithic western temperate and central Europe
* 37: D. C. M. Raemaekers: The persistence of hunting and gathering
amongst farmers in prehistory in Neolithic north-west Europe
* 38: Vicki Cummings and Oliver Harris: The continuity of hunting and
gathering in the Neolithic and beyond in Britain and Ireland
* 39: Charlotte Damm and Lars Forsberg: Forager-farmer contacts in
northern Fennoscandinavia
* 40: Huw Barton: The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst
farmers in south-east Asia in prehistory and beyond
* 41: Katherine A Spielmann: The emergence of forager-farmer
interaction in North America
* Part VI: Ethnohistory and Anthropology of 'Modern' Hunter-Gatherers
* 42: Peter Jordan: The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern'
hunter gatherers
* 43: Robert K. Hitchcock: Hunter-gatherer research traditions in
southern Africa
* 44: Barry S. Hewlett and Jason Fancher: Central African
hunter-gatherer research traditions
* 45: Ian Keen: Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions: Australia
* 46: David Robinson: From ethnohistory to ethnogenesis: a
historiography of hunter-gatherer cultural anthropology in the
California and the Great Basin
* 47: Sean O'Neill: Exploring hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the
Pacific Northwest Coast of North America
* 48: Jana Fortier: Regional hunter-gatherer traditions in south-east
Asia
* 49: Gustavo G. Politis and Almudena Hernando: Regional
hunter-gatherer research traditions: South America
* 50: Mark Hudson: The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern'
hunter-gatherers: North Japan
* 51: Jussi-Pekka Taavitsainen: Hunter-gatherer transformations in
northern Europe after 1500 AD
* Part VII: Future Directions in Hunter-Gatherer Research
* 52: Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings: New approaches in the study of
hunter-gatherers
* 53: Robert L. Kelly: Future directions in hunter-gatherer research:
technology
* 54: Jelmer W. Eerkens, Robert L. Bettinger, and Peter J. Richerson:
Cultural transmission theory and hunter-gatherer archaeology
* 55: Viktor ¿erný and Luísa Pereira: Archaeogenetics of Africa and of
the African hunter-gatherers
* 56: Bruno David, Lara Lamb, and Jack Kaiwari: Landscapes of mobility:
the flow of place
* 57: Nyree Finlay: Personhood and social relations
* 58: Hannah Cobb: Materials, biographies, identities, experiences: new
approaches to materials in hunter-gatherer studies
* 59: David S. Whitley: Hunter-gatherer religion and ritual
* 60: Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach: Hunter-gatherer gender and
identity
* 61: Rick Schulting: Hunter-gatherer diet, subsistence and foodways