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 comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges.
The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.
Edited by:
Vicki Cummings (Reader in Archaeology Reader in Archaeology University of Central Lancashire),
Peter Jordan (Director of the Arctic Centre,
Director of the Arctic Centre,
University of Groningen),
Marek Zvelebil (Professor of European Prehistory,
Professor of European Prehistory,
University of Sheffield)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 171mm,
Spine: 62mm
Weight: 1.894kg
ISBN: 9780199551224
ISBN 10: 0199551227
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 1264
Publication Date: 06 May 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings: 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 'Cerný 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