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Ben Fitzhugh - Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems - 9781461351245 - V9781461351245
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Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems

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Description for Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems Paperback. Editor(s): Fitzhugh, Ben; Habu, Junko. Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 706.
LEWIS R. BINFORD AND AMBER L. JOHNSON The organizers of this volume have brought together authors who have worked on local sequences, much as traditional archaeologists tended to do, however, with the modern goal of addressing evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer systems over long time spans. Given this ambitious goal they wisely chose to ask the authors to build their treatments around a focal question, the utility of the forager-eollector continuum (Binford 1980) for research on archaeological sequences. Needless to say, Binford was flat­ tered by their choice and understandably read the papers with a great deal of interest. When he ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
Series
Fundamental Issues in Archaeology
Number of Pages
442
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781461351245
SKU
V9781461351245
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Reviews for Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems
"[...]important work that will be widely read by professionals and students alike. [...] The editors should be congratulated for pulling together this excellent review of the state of the art in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence research in archaeology." (SAS Bulletin, 26:2, 2003) "Binford's work stopped short of examining evolutionary change in mobility and subsistence regimes over ... Read more

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