Author: Marcel Kornfeld
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Although trends in anthropological thinking have gradually shifted away from considering prehistoric groups as specialists in subsistence provisioning, many scholars studying the North American Plains still consider man to be the `Bison hunter'.
Affluent Foragers of the North American Plains
Author: Marcel Kornfeld
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Although trends in anthropological thinking have gradually shifted away from considering prehistoric groups as specialists in subsistence provisioning, many scholars studying the North American Plains still consider man to be the `Bison hunter'.
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Although trends in anthropological thinking have gradually shifted away from considering prehistoric groups as specialists in subsistence provisioning, many scholars studying the North American Plains still consider man to be the `Bison hunter'.
Beyond Affluent Foragers
Author: International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The term "affluent-foragers" has traditionally described the socio-economic conditions of some coastal fisher-hunters. It implies a high standard of living achieved by high levels of sedentism, made possible by efficient adaptation to the environment. This volume aims to reassess this concept, using case studies from Australia, South America and Japan.
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The term "affluent-foragers" has traditionally described the socio-economic conditions of some coastal fisher-hunters. It implies a high standard of living achieved by high levels of sedentism, made possible by efficient adaptation to the environment. This volume aims to reassess this concept, using case studies from Australia, South America and Japan.
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
Author: Claudio Saunt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324430X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters, and the Sioux discovered the Black Hills. Hailed by critics for challenging our conventional view of the birth of America, West of the Revolution “[coaxes] our vision away from the Atlantic seaboard” and “exposes a continent seething with peoples and purposes beyond Minutemen and Redcoats” (Wall Street Journal).
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324430X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters, and the Sioux discovered the Black Hills. Hailed by critics for challenging our conventional view of the birth of America, West of the Revolution “[coaxes] our vision away from the Atlantic seaboard” and “exposes a continent seething with peoples and purposes beyond Minutemen and Redcoats” (Wall Street Journal).
Ecology and Human Organization on the Great Plains
Author: Douglas B. Bamforth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489920617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489920617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Greek Army on the March
Author: John W. I. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139468138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos ('company'), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It includes full treatment of the environmental conditions of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relations amongst the soldiers, equipment and transport, marching and camp behaviour, eating and drinking, sanitation and medical care, and many other topics. It also accords detailed attention to the non-combatants accompanying the soldiers. It uses ancient literary and archaeological evidence, ancient and modern comparative material, and perspectives from military sociology and modern war studies. This book is essential reading for anyone working on ancient Greek warfare or on Xenophon's Anabasis.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139468138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos ('company'), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It includes full treatment of the environmental conditions of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relations amongst the soldiers, equipment and transport, marching and camp behaviour, eating and drinking, sanitation and medical care, and many other topics. It also accords detailed attention to the non-combatants accompanying the soldiers. It uses ancient literary and archaeological evidence, ancient and modern comparative material, and perspectives from military sociology and modern war studies. This book is essential reading for anyone working on ancient Greek warfare or on Xenophon's Anabasis.
Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776721
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This 2001 volume is an interdisciplinary text on hunter-gatherer populations world-wide.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521776721
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This 2001 volume is an interdisciplinary text on hunter-gatherer populations world-wide.
Archaeology of Native North America
Author: Dean R. Snow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317350065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317350065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings.
Advances in Mathematical Economics
Author: Shigeo Kusuoka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9784431702788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The book is the second volume of the series, Advances in Mathematical Economics, which was launched in 1999. Each volume does not to have volume title like each volume of usual journal. This volume consists of only invited and refereed papers to keep high standard of this series.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9784431702788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The book is the second volume of the series, Advances in Mathematical Economics, which was launched in 1999. Each volume does not to have volume title like each volume of usual journal. This volume consists of only invited and refereed papers to keep high standard of this series.
Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America
Author: George P. Nicholas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489923764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not only have illuminated the backdrop against which culture is viewed, but have identi fied many of the conditions that influence or promote technological develop ment, social transformation, and economic reorganization. It has become in creaSingly evident, however, that if we are to explore more forcefully the linkages between culture and environment, a processual orientation is required. This is found in human ecology-the study of the relationship between people and the ecosystem of which they are a part. This book is a collection of papers about the recent and distant past by scientists and humanists involved in the study of human ecology in northeastern North America. The authors critically examine the systemic interface between people and their environment first by identifying the indicators of that rela tionship (e.g., historical documentation, archaeological site patterning, faunal remains), then by defining the processes by which change in one part of the ecosystem affects other parts (e.g., by conSidering how an ecotonal gradient affects biotic communities over time), and finally by explicating the behavioral implications thereof.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489923764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not only have illuminated the backdrop against which culture is viewed, but have identi fied many of the conditions that influence or promote technological develop ment, social transformation, and economic reorganization. It has become in creaSingly evident, however, that if we are to explore more forcefully the linkages between culture and environment, a processual orientation is required. This is found in human ecology-the study of the relationship between people and the ecosystem of which they are a part. This book is a collection of papers about the recent and distant past by scientists and humanists involved in the study of human ecology in northeastern North America. The authors critically examine the systemic interface between people and their environment first by identifying the indicators of that rela tionship (e.g., historical documentation, archaeological site patterning, faunal remains), then by defining the processes by which change in one part of the ecosystem affects other parts (e.g., by conSidering how an ecotonal gradient affects biotic communities over time), and finally by explicating the behavioral implications thereof.
Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology
Author: Metin I. Eren
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734301
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological practice is becoming increasingly important. This volume includes chapters that cover a wide range of archaeological applications of diversity measures. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800734301
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Calculating the diversity of biological or cultural classes is a fundamental way of describing, analyzing, and understanding the world around us. Understanding archaeological diversity is key to understanding human culture in the past. Archaeologists have long experienced a tenuous relationship with statistics; however, the regular integration of diversity measures and concepts into archaeological practice is becoming increasingly important. This volume includes chapters that cover a wide range of archaeological applications of diversity measures. Featuring studies of archaeological diversity ranging from the data-driven to the theoretical, from the Paleolithic to the Historic periods, authors illustrate the range of data sets to which diversity measures can be applied, as well as offer new methods to examine archaeological diversity.