Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience

Herausgeber: Temple, Daniel H.; Stojanowski, Christopher M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the variety of ways in which hunter-gatherer societies have responded to external stressors while maintaining their core identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 877g
• ISBN-13: 9781107187351
• ISBN-10: 1107187354
• Artikelnr.: 53020609

Inhaltsangabe

1. Interrogating the alterity of hunter-gatherers in bioarchaeological
context: adaptability, transformability and resilience of hunter-gatherers
in the past Daniel H. Temple and Christopher M. Stojanowski; 2. Regional
continuity and local challenges to resilience among holocene
hunter-gatherers of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa Susan
Pfeiffer and Lesley Harrington; 3. Hunter-gatherer persistence and
demography in Patagonia (Southern South America): the impact of ecological
changes during the Pleistocene and Holocene Valeria Bernal, S. Ivan Perez,
María Bárbara Postillone and Diego D. Rindel; 4. The success and failure of
resilience in the European Mesolithic Rick J. Schulting; 5. Persistence of
time: resilience and adaptability in prehistoric Jomon hunter-gatherers
from the inland sea region of Southwestern Honshu, Japan Daniel H. Temple;
6. Biomechanics, habitual activity, and resilience among Southern African
hunter-gatherers and herders Michelle E. Cameron and Jay Stock; 7.
Biocultural adaptation and resilience in the hunter-gatherers of Lagoa
Santa, Central-Eastern Brazil Pedro Da-Gloria and Lucas Bueno; 8.
Resiliency among hunter-gatherers in Southern California before and after
European colonization: a bioarchaeological perspective Erin E. Bornemann
and Lynn H. Gamble; 9. Persistence or pastoralim: the challenges of
studying hunter-gatherer resilience in Africa Christopher M. Stojanowski;
10. Ancient mortuary ritual and cultural resilience on the northwest coast
of North America Bryn Letham and Gary Coupland; 11. Bioarchaeological
evidence for cultural resilience at Point Hope, Alaska: persistence and
memory in the ontology of personhood in northern hunter-gatherers Lauryn C.
Justice and Daniel H. Temple; 12. Biocultural perspectives on interpersonal
violence in the prehistoric San Francisco Bay Area Eric J. Bartelink,
Viviana I. Bellifemine, Irina Nechayev, Valerie A. Andrushko, Alan
Leventhal and Robert Jurmian; 13. The discovery and rapid demise of the
Sadlermiut Charles F. Merbs; 14. When resilience fails: fences, water
control, and Aboriginal history in the Western Riverina, Australia Judith
Littleton; 15. Models, metaphors, and measures Jane E. Buikstra.