The Diversity of Hunter-Gatherer Pasts - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1785705881 ISBN 13 : 9781785705885

Editeur : Oxbow Books, 2017

Synopsis

This thought provoking collection of new research papers explores the extent of variation amongst hunting and gathering peoples past and present and the considerable analytical challenges presented by this diversity. This problem is especially important in archaeology, where increasing empirical evidence illustrates ways of life that are not easily encompassed within the range of variation recognised in the contemporary world of surviving hunter-gatherers. Put simply, how do past hunter-gatherers fit into our understandings of hunter-gatherers? Furthermore, given the inevitable archaeological reliance on analogy, it is important to ask whether conceptions of hunter-gatherers based on contemporary societies restrict our comprehension of past diversity and of how this changes over the long term. Discussion of hunter-gatherers shows them to be varied and flexible, but modelling of contemporary hunter-gatherers has not only reduced them into essential categories, but has also portrayed them as static and without history. It is often said that the study of hunter-gatherers can provide insight into past forms of social organisation and behaviour; unfortunately too often it has limited our understandings of these societies. In contrast, contributors here explore past hunter-gather diversity over time and space to provide critical perspectives on general models of 'hunter-gatherers' and attempt to provide new perspectives on hunter-gatherer societies from the greater diversity present in the past.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bill Finlayson is Director of the Council for British Research in the Levant and works on the early Neolithic of southwest Asia, primarily undertaking fieldwork in southern Jordan at a number of Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites. He has been working to promote southwest Asian Neolithic heritage as an asset for local communities and tourism.

Graeme Warren is Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, where he is is a specialist in the archaeology of hunter-gatherers, focusing on the Mesolithic of northwest Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxbow Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785705881
• ISBN 13: 9781785705885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Éditeur: Finlayson Bill, Warren Graeme
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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