African Foragers: Environment, Technology, InteractionsRowman Altamira, 2003 - Всего страниц: 285 Foraging bands were the quintessential form of human social organization for most of prehistory. Current arguments rage on the genesis of the contemporary descendants of these hunter-gatherers and their applicability to our understanding of lifeways before agriculture and domestication of animals. Sibel Barut Kusimba addresses this debate by synthesizing the archaeological evidence in Africa from the Middle Stone Age to the present, where the greatest time depth of foraging cultures can be traced. She develops a comprehensive picture of these foundational human societies, their social and technological adaptations to environmental conditions, and the impact of interaction from later economic systems on their lifeways. The book should be of importance to both cultural and archaeological anthropologists and their students. |
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Стр. i - and it was always well to pretend to have seen the little man coming a long way off and make him believe he was considered quite a big person; if you said " Hullo, I have only just spotted you!
Стр. i - Cultural Man has been on earth for some 2,000,000 years; for over 99 percent of this period he has lived as a hunter-gatherer. Only in the last 10,000 years has man begun to domesticate plants and animals, to use metals and to harness energy sources other than the human body...
Стр. 242 - In Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today, M. Hall, G. Avery, DM Avery, ML Wilson, and AJB Humphreys, eds.
Стр. i - Of the estimated 80,000,000,000 men who have ever lived out a life span on earth, over 90 percent have lived as hunters and gatherers; about 6 percent have lived by agriculture and the remaining few percent have lived in industrial societies.
Стр. 242 - JS Cramer, A. Franklin, W. Hornyak, JM Keating, RG Klein, W. J. Rink, HP Schwarcz, JNL Smith, K. Stewart, NE Todd, J. Verniers & JE Yellen, 1995. Dating and context of three Middle Stone Age sties with bone points in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire.
Стр. 254 - The exploitation of wild and domesticated food plants at settlement mounds in north-east Nigeria (1800 cal. BC to today).
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