Isbn: 9781138816008 - hunters of the recent past (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Revised. Hardcover, xx + 415 pages, b&w figures & maps in text, NOT ex-library. Fine interior, clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards are slightly crooked with a touch of shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: 1. Meat in Due Season: Timing of Communal Hunts [Communal Hunting; Seasonality: General Considerations & in Large Mammals; Ethnographic Data; Why Communal Hunting] 2. Corralling: Evidence from Upper Paleolithic Cave Art [Lascaux; Altamira; Depiction of Drive Lanes & Corrals; Ritual & Economics; Economy of Corralling] 3. Mammoth Hunting in the New World [Mammoth Herd Demographics; Utilization of Mammoth Bone, Old & New World; Butchering Strategies: Actualistic Studies; Hunting Strategies; Lange-Ferguson Site] 4. Paleoindians & Proboscideans: Ecological Determinants of Selectivity in the Southwestern United States [Optimal Foraging & Prey Selection; Methods; Evaluation of Factors Relative to Proboscidean Procurement; Hypothetical Orientation; Analysis & Discussion] 5. Taphonomic Provenience & Mammoth Bone Modification [Taphonomic Context & Provenience as Concepts; Applications] 6. Was Early Man in North America a Big Game Hunter?; 7. Alternative Hunting Strategies in Plains Paleoindian Adaptations [Lamb Spring Site; Paleoindian Kill Sites on the Northern Plains] 8. Maple Leaf Site: Implications of the Analysis of Small-Scale Bison Kills [Site Setting; Stratigraphy & Dating; Herd Composition & Seasonality; Spatial Patterning; Butchering Patterns] 9. Thoughts on the Structure & Function of Drive Lane Systems at Communal Buffalo Jumps [Historic & Ethnographic Records; Head-Smashed-In Drive Lanes; Drive Lane Function; Oasis Theory] 10. Communal Bison Hunters of the Northern Plains [Importance of Pemmican; Role of the Bow & Arrow; Facts of Life & Cultural Evolution on the Northern Plains; Early Prehistoric 10000-5750 BC; Early Middle Prehistoric I (EMPI) c 6500-3000 BC & II (EMPII) 2800-1000 BC; Late Middle Prehistoric 1000 BC-AD 200; Late Prehistoric AD 200-1750; 'New Society'] 11 Prehistoric Game Drive Systems in the Rocky Mountains & High Plains Areas of Colorado [Physiography & Climatology of the Area; Summary of the Archaeology of the Area; Hunting-and-Gathering Lifestyle; Benedict's High-Altitude Sites; Water Dog Divide Game Drive System 5CF373; Peaker Site 5CF128; Roberts Buffalo Jump 5LR100; Merino Site 5LO122] 12 Prehistoric Mountain Sheep Hunting in the Central Rocky Mountains of North America [Historic Accounts of Mountain Sheep in Wyoming; Pleistocene Mountain Sheep in Wyoming; Mountain Sheep Habits That Influence Hunting Strategies; Archaeological Evidence for Communal Mountain Sheep Trapping in Northwest Wyoming; Killing Mountain Sheep in the Catch-Pens; Mountain Sheep Ram Skulls in Trees; Dating the Sheep Traps & Other Wooden Structures] 13 Late Prehistoric Model for Communal Utilization of Pronghorn Antelope in the Northwestern Plains Region North America [Lost Terrace Setting & Cultural Context; Archaeofauna; Prey Shifting as a Subsistence Adaptation] 14 World Rangifer Communal Hunting [Rangifer Subspecies & Their Behavior; North American Communal Caribou Hunting; Eurasian Communal Reindeer Hunting] 15 Communal Hunting as a Prerequisite for Caribou (Wild Reindeer) as a Human Resource; 16 Moa Procurement: Communal or Individual Hunting? [Methodology; Archaeological Remains & Nature of Hunting; Study Area; Results: Site Types in the Sample & Hunting Technique] 17 Pre-Hispanic Mammal Exploitation & Hunting Strategies in the Eastern Pampa Subregion of Argentina [Environmental Aspects; Archaeological Background; Land Mammal Exploitation During Historic Times; Models of Exploitation] 18 Fuego-Patagonian Bone Assemblages & Problem of Communal Guanaco Hunting [Published Faunal Reports; Models for Faunal Analysis; Guanaco Meat Utility Model; Analysis; Communal Land Mammal Hunting] 19 Humans and Terrestrial & Sea Mammals, Peninsula Mitre, Tierra del Fuego; Index. …

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Gebunden. Condizione: New. Leslie B. Davis, Brian O.K. ReevesOne of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from conting.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - One of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This book considers prehistoric and more recent manifestations of human hunting behaviour, with a general emphasis on communal hunting. It demonstrates that the combination of archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches provides a researched basis for consideration of the topic on worldwide, regional, and local scales. It includes theoretical and methodological issues, within a context of enquiry, original data presentation, and discussion. It is of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnohistorians.…

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