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9781405137539

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

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  • ISBN13:

    9781405137539

  • ISBN10:

    1405137533

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Global Deserts in Perspective
Frameworks:
Theoretical Shifts in the Anthropology of Desert Hunter-Gatherers
Pleistocene Settlement of Deserts from an Australian Perspective
Arid Paradises of Dangerous Landscapes: A Review of Explanations for Paleolithic Assemblage Change in Arid Australia and Africa
Dynamics:
Evolutionary and Ecological Understandings of the Economics of Desert Societies: Comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian Deserts
Cycles of Aridity and Human Mobility: Risk Minimization amongst Late Pleistocene Foragers of the Western Desert, Australia
Archaic Faces to Head-Dresses: The Changing Role of Rock Art across the Arid Zone
The Archaeology of the Patagonia Deserts: Hunter-Gatherers in a Cold Desert
Interactions:
Perspectives on Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Arid Southern Africa
Long Term Transitions in Hunter-Gatherers of Coastal Northwest Australia
Hunter-Gatherers and Herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene
Desert Archaeology, Linguistic Stratigraphy, and the Spread of the Western Desert Language
People of the Coastal Atacama Desert: Living between Sand Dunes and Waves of the Pacific Ocean
Desert Solitude: The Evolution of Ideologies amongst Pastoralists and Hunter-Gatherers in Arid North Africa
Hunter-Gatherer Interactions with Sheep and Cattle Pastoralists from the Australian Arid Zone
Conclusion: Major Themes and Future Research Directions
General Index
Index of Archaelogical Features and Subjects
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