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Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology
edited by George M. Crothers

The contributions in this volume reflect the diverse and anthropologically current debate flourishing in prehistoric hunter and gatherer research. Highlighting research in Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, and the Subarctic, theoretical approaches range from the ecological to the sociological. Methodological topics include optimal foraging, settlement models, population dynamics, lithic and faunal studies, ethnoarchaeology, and oral history. These essays show that the study of prehistoric hunters and gatherers is making great strides to integrate the social, economic, and political dimensions of forager behavior. ORDER NOW

Contents:
1. Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology: An Introduction
George M. Crothers

2. Adaptive Responses of Paleoindians to Cold Stress on the Periglacial Northern Great Plains
Alan J. Osborn

3. Paleoindian Population Dynamics in New England: Possible Typological Consequences
Brian D. Jones

4. Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation in Theory and Evidence: The Eastern North American Paleoindian Case
Michael J. Shott

5. Hunter-Gatherers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Testing Assumptions About Site Function
Kenneth P. Cannon, Dawn R. Bringelson, and Molly Boeka Cannon

6. Environment and Resource Distribution in the British Early Mesolithic: Toward More Defined Settlement Modeling
Michael J. Reynier

7. Places, Ranges, and Paths: The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Southern Germany
Lynn E. Fisher

8. Alternative Models of Spatial Organization for Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers
Ariane M. Burke

9. Hunter-Gatherer Food Sharing: Social and Economic Interactions
James G. Enloe

10. Meat Sharing and the Archaeological Record: A Test of the Show-Off Hypothesis Among Central African Bofi Foragers
Karen D. Lupo and Dave N. Schmitt

11. Optimal Foraging Theory and Technoeconomic Evolution Among Northern Maritime Hunter-Gatherers
David R. Yesner

12. Optimal Foraging Theory and Cognitive Archaeology: Cup'ik Cultural Perception in Southwestern Alaska
Caroline L. Funk

13. A Tale of Two Settlement Patterns: Environmental and Cultural Determinants of Inuit and Dene Site Distributions
T. Max Friesen

14. Plant-Use Schedules, Decreased Mobility, and Social Differentiation: Hunter-Gatherers in Forested Chile
Jack Rossen and Tom D. Dillehay

15. Delayed-Return Hunter-Gatherers in Africa? Historic Perspectives from the Okiek and Archaeological Perspectives from the Kansyore
Darla Dale, Fiona Marshall, and Tom Pilgram

16. Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Patterns in a Subhumid-to-Semiarid Environment
Michael Pickering

17. The Foraging Mode of Production: The Case of the Green River Archaic Shell Middens
George M. Crothers and Reinhard Bernbeck

18. Roots of the Theocratic Formative of the Archaic Southeast
Kenneth E. Sassaman and Michael J. Heckenberger

19. Whales, Harpoons, and Other Actors: Actor-Network Theory and Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology
Peter Whitridge

20. Discussants' Comments and Overview
Robert L. Bettinger and Peter Rowley-Conwy