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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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-glaci...
