Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of mobility / edited by Frédéric Sellet, Russell Greaves, and Pei-Lin Yu.

Publication

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Sellet, Frédéric.
• Greaves, Russell Dean.
• Yu, Pei-Lin, 1964-

Description

xvii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Subjects

• Human beings > Migrations
• Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
• Tools, Prehistoric
• Agriculture, Prehistoric
• Hunting and gathering societies
• Domestication

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Bands as characteristic of "mobile hunter-gatherers" may exist only in the history of anthropology / Lewis R. Binford -- 2. The different dimensions of mobility among the Nukak foragers of the Colombian Amazon / Gustavo G. Politis -- 3. Locational analysis of Yanomamo Gardens and villages observed in satellite imagery / Nathan Craig and Napoleon A. Chagnon -- 4. Mobility and houses in Southwestern Madagascar : ethnoarchaeology among the Mikea and their neighbors / Robert L. Kelly, Lin Poyer and Bram Tucker -- 5. How much land do the Wana use? / Michael S. Alvard -- 6. Forager landscape use and residential organization / Russell D. Greaves -- 7. Changing mobility roles at the advent of agriculture : a biobehavioral reconstruction / Marsha D. Ogilvie -- 8. The grass is greener on the other side : a study of pastoral mobility on the Eurasian Steppe of Southeastern Kazakhstan / Claudia Chang -- 9. From Atlatl to bow and arrow : implicating projectile technology in changing systems of hunter-gatherer mobility / Pei-Lin Yu -- 10. Two steps forward, one step back : the inference of mobility patterns from stone tools / Frederic Sellet -- 11. Local raw material exploitation and prehistoric hunter-gatherer mobility / Paul T. Thacker -- 12. Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization among late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth.

ISBN

0813029562 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006042195
• 9780813029566

OCLC

• OCM70175013
• SCSB-5280787

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries