Time And Change: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on the Long-Term in Hunter-Gatherer Societies

by Papagianni, Dimitra; Layton, Robert; Maschner, Herbert D. G.

• ISBN13: 9781842173206
• ISBN10: 1842173200
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

This volume explores long-term behavioural patterns and processes of change in hunter-gatherer societies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present. In doing so, this volume questions the disciplinary distinctions between fine and coarse-grain understandings of hunter-gatherer societies in anthropology and archaeology and challenges the perception that these distinctions are inherent to the two disciplines. The volume brings together studies that specifically address long-term behavioural patterns in hunter-gatherer societies past and present. Some of the contributors also combine historical/archival data and archaeological evidence with anthropological work on contemporary hunter-gatherers. All the papers are based on case-studies that, taken together, cover a wide geographical and chronological range. They represent current research dynamics in anthropology and archaeology across the globe (North and South America, Europe and Australia), and a variety of theoretical perspectives. The papers range chronologically from the Lower Palaeolithic to the present, and encompass groups at various levels of complexity of social organisation and degrees of sedentism, interaction with farmers and 'pristine-ness'. 160p, 38 b/w illus 7 tabs (Oxbow Books 2008)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vi
Preface	p. ix
Time and Change: Crisp Snapshots and Fuzzy Trends	p. 1
Strategies for Long-Term Stability
Stability or Flexibility? Handaxes and Hominins in the Lower Palaeolithic	p. 15
Moving Through Unstable Landscapes: Cycles of Change and Palaeolithic Mobility Patterns	p. 37
Studying Change over the Long-Term
Long-Term Human/Animal Interactions and their Implications for Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in South America	p. 55
Changing Places: Ten Thousand Years of North Australian Rock-Art Transformation	p. 73
Catastrophic Events and Punctuated Culture Change: The Southern Bering Sea and North Pacific in a Dynamic Global System	p. 95
Interactions Between Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers in the Early and Middle Neolithic in the Polish Part of the North European Plain	p. 115
Ethnographic Analogy
Group-Based Versus Individual-Based Approaches: Selecting an Appropriate Scale for the Archaeological Study of Prehistoric Hunting and Gathering People	p. 135
Changing Patterns of Sea Mammal Exploitation Among the Makah	p. 143
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