Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience: A Bioarchaeological Perspective - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1107187354 ISBN 13 : 9781107187351

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production, which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters in this volume explore the different ways that hunter-gatherer societies around the world adapted to changing social and ecological circumstances while still maintaining a predominantly hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Couched specifically within the framework of resilience theory, the authors use contextualized bioarchaeological analyses of health, diet, mobility, and funerary practices to explore how hunter-gatherers responded to challenges and actively resisted change that diminished the core of their social identity and worldview.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Daniel H. Temple is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. His research focuses on the life history, diet, mortuary ritual, and evolutionary morphology of hunter-gatherer populations from Northeast Asia and North America, specifically Japan, Siberia, Alaska, and Florida. He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on topics including growth and development, life history theory, enamel microstructures and stress, hunter-gatherer mortuary ritual, ecogeographic adaptation, functional adaptation, biodistance analysis, and prehistoric diet.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1107187354
• ISBN 13: 9781107187351
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 404