Hunter-Gatherers Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Bettinger, Robert L. (Συγγραφέας), Garvey, Raven (Συγγραφέας), Tushingham, Shannon (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Σειρά: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and th...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Historical Approaches to Hunter-Gatherers
• Chapter 1: Progressive Social Evolution and Hunter-Gatherers
• Chapter 2: The History of Americanist Hunter-Gatherer Research
• Part II. Theories of Limited Sets
• Chapter 3: Middle-Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers
• Chapter 4: Hunter-Gatherers as Optimal Foragers
• Chapter 5: More Complex Models of Optimal Behavior among Hunter-Gatherers
• Part III. Theories of General Sets
• Chapter 6: Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers
• Chapter 7: Neo-Darwinian Theory and Hunter-Gatherers
• Chapter 8: Hunter-Gatherers and Neo-Darwinian Cultural Transmission
• Chapter 9: Hunter-Gatherers: Problems in Theory.