Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers : The Emergence of Cultural Complexity

by: Price, T.D. Brown, J.A.

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Prehistoric hunter-gatherers : the emergence of cultural complexity

Authors:T. Douglas Price, James Allison Brown

Summary:Book written by archaeologists on the subject of culture change and complexity. Focuses specifically on the emergence of cultural complexity among hunter-gatherers. Highlights the variety of adaptations that characterize prehistoric hunter-gatherers as well as delineating some of the primary features of social complexity. Includes a chapter: Whaling as an organizing focus in northwestern Alaskan Eskimo societies by Glenn W. Sheehan

Series:
Studies in archaeology

xviii, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents:
Aspects of hunter-gatherer complexity / T. Douglas Price and James A. Brown
Prehistoric developments in the American midcontinent and in Brittany, northwest France / Barbara Bender
Complexity and scale in the study of fisher-gatherer-hunters : an example from the eastern United States / William H. Marquardt
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers : the meaning of social complexity / Mark Nathan Cohen
Whaling as an organizing focus in northwestern Alaskan Eskimo societies / Glenn W. Sheehan
Hierarchies, stress, and logistical strategies among hunter-gatherers in northwestern North America / Kenneth M. Ames
Complex hunter-gatherers in interior British Columbia / Brian Hayden [and others]
Long-term trends to sedentism and the emergence of complexity in the American Midwest / James A. Brown
Patterns of intensification as seen from the Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain / Olga Soffer
The ecological basis of social complexity in the Upper Paleolithic of southwestern France / Paul A. Mellars
Ritual communication, social elaboration, and the variable trajectories of Paleolithic material culture / Margaret W. Conkey
Mobility in the early Mesolithic of northwestern Europe : an alternative explanation / Peter C. Woodman
Affluent foragers of Mesolithic southern Scandinavia / T. Douglas Price
Preagricultural sedentism : the Natufian example / Donald O. Henry
Intensification and Australian prehistory / Harry Lourandos
"Now let's invent agriculture-" : a critical review of concepts of complexity and hunter-gatherers / Richard A. Gould
Complex hunter-gatherers : retrospect and prospect / James A. Brown and T. Douglas Price

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers : The Emergence of Cultural Complexity

by: Price, T.D. Brown, J.A.

• ISBN-13: 9780125647502 / 978-0-12-564750-2
• ISBN-03: 0125647506 / 0-12-564750-6
• Academic Press, London, 1985

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock