Desert peoples archaeological perspectives
Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. WallisTheoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Arid paradises of da...
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Malden, MA u.a.
Blackwell Publ.
2005
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. WallisTheoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Arid paradises of dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic-assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor -- Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird -- Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization amongst Late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth -- Archaic faces to head-dresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald -- The archaeology of the Patagonia deserts : hunter-gatherers in a cold desert / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Perspectives on later Stone Age hunter-gatherer archaeology in arid southern Africa / Anne Thackeray -- Long term transitions in hunter-gatherers of coastal northwest Australia / Kathryn Przywolnik -- Hunter-gatherers and herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene / Karim Sadr -- Desert archaeology, linguistic stratigraphy, and the spread of the western desert language / Mike Smith -- People of the coastal Atacama Desert : living between sand dunes and waves of the Pacific Ocean / Calogera M. Santoro, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, and Pablo A. Marquet -- Desert solitude : the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Hunter-gatherer interactions with sheep and cattle pastoralists from the Australian arid zone / Alistair Paterson -- Conclusion : major themes and future research directions / Peter Veth. Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Arid paradises of dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic-assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor -- Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird -- Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization amongst Late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth -- Archaic faces to head-dresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald -- The archaeology of the Patagonia deserts : hunter-gatherers in a cold desert / Luis Alberto Borrero -- Perspectives on later Stone Age hunter-gatherer archaeology in arid southern Africa / Anne Thackeray -- Long term transitions in hunter-gatherers of coastal northwest Australia / Kathryn Przywolnik -- Hunter-gatherers and herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene / Karim Sadr -- Desert archaeology, linguistic stratigraphy, and the spread of the western desert language / Mike Smith -- People of the coastal Atacama Desert : living between sand dunes and waves of the Pacific Ocean / Calogera M. Santoro, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, and Pablo A. Marquet -- Desert solitude : the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Hunter-gatherer interactions with sheep and cattle pastoralists from the Australian arid zone / Alistair Paterson -- Conclusion : major themes and future research directions / Peter Veth |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | X, 308 S Ill., Kt 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 1405100915 1-4051-0091-5 1405100907 1-4051-0090-7 |