Year: 2001
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Areas of researchAnalyses of the ecology, biology, and society of past and present-day hunter±gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary volume.A great deal of new research has been published in these three areas since Man the Hunter (Lee and DeVore 1968), but almost invariably in separate works rather than in a single volume.Consequently, hunter±gatherer studies have become increasingly specialised, the common forum provided by Man the Hunter and the lines of communication between academic disciplines having all but broken down.The recent Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers (Lee and Daly 1999) presents the ethnographies of 53 groups world-wide and reviews the history and culture, the indigenous world-views, and the emergence of hunter±gatherers in wider public and political discourses.However, in contending that recent concerns have `moved relatively far from evolutionary and ecological preoccupations' (p.11), it includes little coverage of important issues in the ®eld of biological anthropology and human ecology.Most other publications on hunter±gatherers either exclude biology and consider almost entirely present-day groups (Ingold et al. 1988, Burch andEllana 1994), or conversely focus on evolutionary ecology (Bettinger, 1991, Kelly 1995), exclusively archaeological populations (Soffer and Gamble 1990), or a single group or region (Hill and Hurtado, 1996, Biesbrouck et al. 1999).The present volume brings together several contributions in archaeology, social anthropology and biological anthropology.What issues are raised that command a continuing interest in these areas 1
Authors: C. Panter-Brick, R.H. Layton, P. Rowley-Conwy
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2602779766