Foraging In The Past

Author : Lemke
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607327745

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Foraging in the Past by Lemke Pdf

The label “hunter-gatherer” covers an extremely diverse range of societies and behaviors, yet most of what is known is provided by ethnographic and historical data that cannot be used to interpret prehistory. Foraging in the Past takes an explicitly archaeological approach to the potential of the archaeological record to document the variability and time depth of hunter-gatherers. Well-established and young scholars present new prehistoric data and describe new methods and theories to investigate ancient forager lifeways and document hunter-gatherer variability across the globe. The authors use relationships established by cross-cultural data as a background for examining the empirical patterns of prehistory. Covering underwater sites in North America, the peaks of the Andes, Asian rainforests, and beyond, chapters are data rich, methodologically sound, and theoretically nuanced, effectively exploring the latest evidence for behavioral diversity in the fundamental process of hunting and gathering. Foraging in the Past establishes how hunter-gatherers can be considered archaeologically, extending beyond the reach of ethnographers and historians to argue that only through archaeological research can the full range of hunter-gatherer variability be documented. Presenting a comprehensive and integrated approach to forager diversity in the past, the volume will be of significance to both students and scholars working with or teaching about hunter-gatherers. Contributors: Nicholas J. Conard, Raven Garvey, Keiko Kitagawa, John Krigbaum, Petra Krönneck, Steven Kuhn, Julia Lee-Thorp, Peter Mitchell, Katherine Moore, Susanne C. Münzel, Kurt Rademaker, Patrick Roberts, Britt Starkovich, Brian A. Stewart, Mary Stiner

Author : R. J. Kelly
Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798986386171

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The Foraging Spectrum by R. J. Kelly Pdf

The author wrote this book primarily for his archaeology students, to show them how dangerous anthropological analogy is and how variable the actual practices of foragers of the recent past and today are. His survey of anthropological literature points to differences in foraging societies' patterns of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, exchange, gender relations, division of labour, marriage, descent and political organisation. By considering the actual, not imagined, reasons behind diverse behaviour this book argues for a revision of many archaeological models of prehistory. From the reviews "[A]n excellent overview of key issues in hunter-gatherer studies." Alan Barnard in American Ethnologist "Not since Man the Hunter has there been such a synthesis and such a mix of stimulating ideas. This will be the authoritative work on hunter/gatherers for a good number of years." Brian Hayden in Canadian Journal of Archaeology "[A]uthoritative, comprehensive, and highly readable. . . . A well-worn and heavily annotated copy should be the companion of anyone claiming an interest or expertise in present or past hunter-gatherers." Bruce Winterhalder in American Antiquity Prepublication praise "The Foraging Spectrum [is] a well-written, scrupulously researched synthesis of modern approaches to foraging behavior, both past and present." David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History "A tour de force of scholarship in behavioral ecology." Mathias Guenther, Wilfred Laurier University

Author : Robert L. Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107355095

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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers by Robert L. Kelly Pdf

In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.

Author : Thomas Vennum
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 087351226X

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Wild Rice and the Ojibway People by Thomas Vennum Pdf

Explores in detail the technology of harvesting and processing the grain, the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend, including the rich social life of the traditional rice camps, and the volatile issues of treaty rights. Wild rice has always been essential to life in the Upper Midwest and neighboring Canada. In this far-reaching book, Thomas Vennum Jr. uses travelers' narratives, historical and ethnological accounts, scientific data, historical and contemporary photographs and sketches, his own field work, and the words of Native people to examine the importance of this wild food to the Ojibway people. He details the technology of harvesting and processing, from seventeenth-century reports though modern mechanization. He explains the important place of wild rice in Ojibway ceremony and legend and depicts the rich social life of the traditional rice camps. And he reviews the volatile issues of treaty rights and litigations involving Indian problems in maintaining this traditional resource. A staple of the Ojibway diet and economy for centuries, wild rice has now become a gourmet food. With twentieth-century agricultural technology and paddy cultivation, white growers have virtually removed this important source of income from Indigenous hands. Nevertheless, the Ojibway continue to harvest and process rice each year. It remains a vital part of their social, cultural, and religious life.

Author : David W. Stephens,Joel S. Brown,Ronald C. Ydenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226772653

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Foraging by David W. Stephens,Joel S. Brown,Ronald C. Ydenberg Pdf

Foraging is fundamental to animal survival and reproduction, yet it is much more than a simple matter of finding food; it is a biological imperative. Animals must find and consume resources to succeed, and they make extraordinary efforts to do so. For instance, pythons rarely eat, but when they do, their meals are large—as much as 60 percent larger than their own bodies. The snake’s digestive system is normally dormant, but during digestion metabolic rates can increase fortyfold. A python digesting quietly on the forest floor has the metabolic rate of thoroughbred in a dead heat. This and related foraging processes have broad applications in ecology, cognitive science, anthropology, and conservation biology—and they can be further extrapolated in economics, neurobiology, and computer science. Foraging is the first comprehensive review of the topic in more than twenty years. A monumental undertaking, this volume brings together twenty-two experts from throughout the field to offer the latest on the mechanics of foraging, modern foraging theory, and foraging ecology. The fourteen essays cover all the relevant issues, including cognition, individual behavior, caching behavior, parental behavior, antipredator behavior, social behavior, population and community ecology, herbivory, and conservation. Considering a wide range of taxa, from birds to mammals to amphibians, Foraging will be the definitive guide to the field.

Author : Eric Alden Smith
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202366952

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Inujjuamiunt Foraging Strategies by Eric Alden Smith Pdf

This study of the hunters of the settlement of Inukjuak (Inujjuaq) in Ungava, northern Quebec, evaluates the utility of models drawn from evolutionary ecology, including optimal foraging theory, in analyzing the subsistence economy of a contemporary (Inuit) hunting-gathering people, and places the Inujjuamiut society in a general anthropological context.

Author : Cécile Garcia,Dora Biro,Francine L. Dolins,Karline Janmaat,Sandrine Prat
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832522516

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Cognition, foraging, and energetics in extant and extinct primates by Cécile Garcia,Dora Biro,Francine L. Dolins,Karline Janmaat,Sandrine Prat Pdf

Author : Dina Falconi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-14
Category : Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN : 0989343308

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Foraging and Feasting by Dina Falconi Pdf

Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook celebrates and reclaims the lost art of turning locally gathered wild plants into nutritious, delicious meals ? a traditional foodway long practiced by our ancestors but neglected in modern times. The book's beautiful, instructive botanical illustrations and enlightening recipes offer an adventurous and satisfying way to eat locally and seasonally. Readers will be able to identify, harvest, prepare, eat, and savor the wild bounty all around them. We share this project with you out of our long commitment to connecting with nature through food and art. The effort weaves together Dina?s 30 years of passionate investigations into wild-plant identification, foraging, and cooking with Wendy?s deft artistic skills honed over 15 years as a botanical illustrator. The result is an abundance of recipes and illustrations that explore creative ways to bring wild edibles into our lives. Part One of Foraging & Feasting serves as a visual guide, tracking 50 plants through their growing cycle. The images illustrate the culinary uses of wild plants at various seasons. Part Two contains easy-to-use references including Plant Chart Centerfolds and Seasonal Flow Charts. Part Three brings you into the kitchen; here you'll find more than 100 master recipes and countless variations formulated to help you easily turn wild plants into delectable salads, soups, beverages, meat dishes, desserts, and a host of other culinary delights. These recipes are not limited to wild ingredients; they can be used with cultivated ingredients as well, purchased or homegrown. Many of the recipes can be made to accommodate various dietary restrictions: gluten-free, casein-free, dairy-free, grain-free, and sugar-free. Among those who will find the book valuable are the health-conscious members of the Weston A Price Foundation, ever in search of nutrient-dense, traditional whole foods. Slow Food enthusiasts will appreciate how focusing on ancient, seas¬¬unusual edibles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556036644524

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Wasatch-Cache National Forest (N.F.), Big Creek Vegetation Treatment Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian F. Codding,Karen Kramer
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826356963

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Why Forage? by Brian F. Codding,Karen Kramer Pdf

4: Twenty-First-Century Hunting and Gathering among Western and Central Kalahari San / Robert K. Hitchcock and Maria Sapignoli -- 5: Why Do So Few Hadza Farm? / Nicholas Blurton Jones -- 6: In Pursuit of the Individual: Recent Economic Opportunities and the Persistence of Traditional Forager-Farmer Relationships in the Southwestern Central African Republic / Karen D. Lupo -- 7: What Now?: Big Game Hunting, Economic Change, and the Social Strategies of Bardi Men / James E. Coxworth

Author : Ben Fitzhugh,Junko Habu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461505433

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Beyond Foraging and Collecting by Ben Fitzhugh,Junko Habu Pdf

This volume includes new research on the theoretical implications regarding the mechanisms of change in the geographical distribution of hunter-gatherer settlement and land use. It focuses on the long-term changes in the hunter-gatherer settlement on a global scale, including research from several continents. It will be of interest to archaeologists and cultural anthropologists working in the field of the forager/ collector model throughout the world.

Author : David R. Harris,Gordon C. Hillman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317598299

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Foraging and Farming by David R. Harris,Gordon C. Hillman Pdf

This book is one of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, attempting to bring together not only archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, as well as academics from contingent disciplines, but also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This volume develops a new approach to plant exploitation and early agriculture in a worldwide comparative context. It modifies the conceptual dichotomy between "hunter-gatherers" and "farmers", viewing human exploitation of plant resources as a global evolutionary process which incorporated the beginnings of cultivation and crop domestication. The studies throughout the book come from a worldwide range of geographical contexts, from the Andes to China and from Australia to the Upper Mid-West of North America. This work is of interest to anthropologists, archaeologists, botanists and geographers. Originally published 1989.

Author : Kenneth E. Sassaman,Donald H. Holly (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816529256

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Hunter-gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process by Kenneth E. Sassaman,Donald H. Holly (Jr.) Pdf

Papers from a seminar held in 2008 at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Ariz.

Author : Adele Nozedar
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781848993655

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Foraging with Kids by Adele Nozedar Pdf

A fun, informative guide to safely foraging with kids—featuring beautiful illustrations, plant facts and profiles, and 50 family projects for making the most of your wild edibles In today’s world of increasingly sedentary lifestyles and a growing detachment from the food that we eat, it has never been more important to encourage children to put down their screens, get outside, and engage with the natural world around them. Foraging with Kids is a fun, practical book for parents and their children that encourages families to interact with their environment and gain a practical understanding of the natural world through exploration and play. Featuring projects based around 50 easy-to-identify plants common in parks, forests, and hedgerows worldwide, Foraging with Kids makes the challenge of discovering functional flora just as achievable to those who live in the city as in the countryside. Once they have foraged their plants, children will be amazed by the diverse practical uses of their discoveries—from making soap from conkers or setting a delicious egg-free custard with plantain, to stopping minor cuts from bleeding with hedge woundwort. Children will take great pride in seeing their gatherings forming part of the family meal, and parents will be amazed at how even the most vegetable-averse child will develop an enthusiastic appetite for a meal that they have contributed to. Featuring beautiful hand drawings, essential information on plant facts and identification, and a diverse range of engaging family projects, this is the perfect book for anyone who wants their children to get outside, connect with nature, and have a lot of fun in the process.

Author : Frederic L. Pryor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521849047

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Economic Systems of Foraging, Agricultural, and Industrial Societies by Frederic L. Pryor Pdf

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