This volume explores long-term behavioural patterns and processes
of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic
to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary
distinctions between fine and coarse-grain understandings of
hunter-gatherer societies in anthropology and archaeology and
challenges the perception that these distinctions are inherent to
the two disciplines. The volume brings together studies that
specifically address long-term behavioural patterns in
hunter-gatherer societies past and present. Some of the
contributors also combine historical/archival data and
archaeological evidence with anthropological work on contemporary
hunter-gatherers. All the papers are based on case-studies that,
taken together, cover a wide geographical and chronological range.
They represent current research dynamics in anthropology and
archaeology across the globe (North and South America, Europe and
Australia), and a variety of theoretical perspectives. The papers
range chronologically from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present,
and encompass groups at various levels of complexity of social
organisation and degrees of sedentism, interaction with farmers and
'pristine-ness'. 160p, 38 b/w illus 7 tabs (Oxbow Books 2008)
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