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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.
Table des matières
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
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.
