Hunters Of The Recent Past

Author : Leslie B. Davis,Brian O.K. Reeves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317598350

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Hunters of the Recent Past by Leslie B. Davis,Brian O.K. Reeves Pdf

One of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This book considers prehistoric and more recent manifestations of human hunting behaviour, with a general emphasis on communal hunting. It demonstrates that the combination of archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches provides a researched basis for consideration of the topic on worldwide, regional, and local scales. It includes theoretical and methodological issues, within a context of enquiry, original data presentation, and discussion. It is of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnohistorians.

Author : Theron Douglas Price,Anne Birgitte Gebauer
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultura
ISBN : UCSC:32106016663111

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Last Hunters, First Farmers by Theron Douglas Price,Anne Birgitte Gebauer Pdf

During virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishment on the availability of wild plants and animals. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, however, the most remarkable phenomenon in the course of human prehistory was set in motion. At locations around the world, over a period of about 5,000 years, hunters became farmers. Far more than the domestication of plant and animal species was involved in this revolution, which was accompanied by massive changes in the structure and organization of the societies that adopted agriculture and by a totally new relationship with the environment. Whereas hunter-gatherers live off the land in an extensive fashion, exploiting a diversity of resources over a broad area, farmers utilize the landscape intensively. The implications of these changes in human activity and social organization reverberate down to the present day.

Author : Elizabeth Sonnenburg,Ashley K. Lemke,John M. O'Shea
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703852

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Caribou Hunting in the Upper Great Lakes by Elizabeth Sonnenburg,Ashley K. Lemke,John M. O'Shea Pdf

Author : Juliette M. Pasveer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789058096630

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The Djief Hunters, 26,000 Years of Rainforest Exploitation on the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia by Juliette M. Pasveer Pdf

Two prehistoric cave sites on the Bird's Head of western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26,000 years of human occupation of this area. During Late Pleistocene times, lower temperatures allowed a suite of montane animal species to descend onto the lowland Ayamaru Plateau. When the montane fauna receded during the subsequent climatic amelioration, people switched their hunting focus to a forest wallaby, known locally as Djief. Detailed analysis of this species' remains, including the reconstruction of their age profile, provides insights into why prolonged hunting of this species did not lead to its extinction. The wallaby population evidently thrived at its demographic maximum throughout the early and mid-Holocene, suggesting that human population densities, and therefore hunting pressure, were low until c. 5000 BP. This volume of Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia offers a unique perspective on sustainable hunting in prehistory and provides intriguing insights into hunter-gatherer subsistence, tool manufacturing and use, the changing intensity of occupation of the sites, and environmental exploitation from Late Pleistocene times onwards in a lowland tropical region. It forms an important contribution to the current debate on the possibilities of human occupation of tropical rainforest before the advent of agriculture.

Author : Peter C. Lent
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0806131705

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Muskoxen and Their Hunters by Peter C. Lent Pdf

"Muskoxen, shaggy denizens of the Far North, are creatures long enveloped in myth. In this first major work on the muskox, Peter C. Lent presents a comprehensive account of how its fortunes have been intertwined with our own since the glaciations of the Pleistocene era.

Author : Dale Hamm,David Bakke
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809320762

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The Last of the Market Hunters by Dale Hamm,David Bakke Pdf

Duck hunting has changed greatly since the days of unlimited duck kills, as the limit of fifty ducks a day established in 1902 has fallen to the present three. A legitimate hunter now, Dale Hamm learned the art of market hunting—taking waterfowl out of season and selling them to restaurants—from his father during the l920s. During the l930s and l940s, he kept his family alive by market hunting. At the peak of his career, Hamm poached every private hunting club along the Illinois River from Havana to Beardstown. After market hunting died out, Hamm became a legendary and almost respected—albeit controversial—character on the Illinois backwaters. He was eventually invited to hunt on the same clubs from which he had once been chased at the point of a shotgun. He hunted with judges, sheriffs, and the head of undercover operations for the Illinois Department of Conservation, all of whom knew of his reputation. He passed on to these hunting partners a lifetime of outdoor knowledge gained from slogging through mud, falling through ice, hunting ducks at three o’clock in the morning, dodging game wardens, and running the world’s only floating tavern. "I always said if anyone ever cut open one of us Hamms, all they’d find was duck or fish," Hamm once said of his family. Now in his eighties, Hamm still carries a pellet from a shotgun in his chin to remind him of a shotgun blast that ricocheted off the water and into his face. Bakke notes that it is appropriate that a man who spent his life with a shotgun in his hands should carry a bit of buckshot wherever he goes. Everyone who ever met Dale Hamm has a story about him. His own story is that of a one-of-a-kind character who, in his later years, used his considerable outdoor savvy to conserve the natural resources he once savaged. "His time and kind are gone," Bakke notes, "and there will never be another like him." This book will be of interest to anyone who has ever been hunting—or who enjoys reading about colorful people and times that exist no more.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691245607

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The First Fossil Hunters by Adrienne Mayor Pdf

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.

Author : Bo Wafford
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456860110

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From First Life, To the Last Hunt by Bo Wafford Pdf

Bo Wafford is an avid hunter, fisherman, father, and grandfather, with five great-grandchildren. After living and traveling over much of the world during his life, he now spends his days in Mt. Vernon, Texas, within four miles of where he was born. He grew up in Northeast Texas, the son of a farmer, spending as much time picking cotton as in school. A desire to find adventure in his life led him to enlist in the Air Force. Bo served twenty-one years in the United States Air Force, retiring in 1974. The next phase of life led him to a career as a hunting guide. He guided and hunted all over the world, including Australia, Uruguay, Alaska, and many more locations. He still guides occasionally at the world famous Y.O. Ranch, Mountain Home, Texas, where he guided throughout his career. Among hunters he has guided over the years, Bo is known as The Legend. “From First Life to the Last Hunt” chronicles the hardships of his early years and a life full of adventures. Bo guarantees every story to be true and authentic, most of the time.

Author : Kenneth E. Sassaman,Donald H. Holly
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530434

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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process by Kenneth E. Sassaman,Donald H. Holly Pdf

Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume seeks to set a new course for hunter-gatherer archaeolog.

Author : Richard B. Lee,Richard Heywood Daly,Richard Daly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 052157109X

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers by Richard B. Lee,Richard Heywood Daly,Richard Daly Pdf

Hunting and gathering is humanity's first and most successful adaptation. Until 12,000 years ago, all humanity lived this way. Surprisingly, in an increasingly urbanized and technological world dozens of hunting and gathering societies have persisted and thrive worldwide, resilient in the face of change, their ancient ways now combined with the trappings of modernity. The Encyclopedia is divided into three parts. The first contains case studies, by leading experts, of over fifty hunting and gathering peoples, in seven major world regions. There is a general introduction and an archaeological overview for each region. Part II contains thematic essays on prehistory, social life, gender, music and art, health, religion, and indigenous knowledge. The final part surveys the complex histories of hunter-gatherers' encounters with colonialism and the state, and their ongoing struggles for dignity and human rights as part of the worldwide movement of indigenous peoples.

Author : Joseph Gary Crance
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781483469850

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The Last Coon Hunter: Book I of the Ryland Creek Saga by Joseph Gary Crance Pdf

It was a simpler time as widower Jacob Ernst struggles to raise his two young sons, Nathan and Mead, on their modest farm. They've grown up listening to the nighttime songs of hounds in the pursuit of the wily ringtail. Chasing raccoon through darkened hills, Jacob teaches his sons the legends of their hometown and a deep respect for all woodland creatures. Hunting and the lessons taught keep the Ernst family together. And the brothers bond with their dogs-loyal to one another until the end. For this is Painted Post-a storied place where the lessons of life, love, and death play out beneath its mighty oaks. But worlds collide. Evil follows the Ernst family and their hounds into these mystical hills. The scourge of the illegal drug trade, coupled with the treachery of one of their own, leads to an inevitable showdown. Some will learn that not all of Painted Post's vivid tales are pure legend, and this rugged woodland will wield its own brutal justice. For in the darkest hollows, solid bonds are forged.

Author : Tim Ingold,David Riches,James Woodburn
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005393272

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Hunters and Gatherers: History, evolution, and social change by Tim Ingold,David Riches,James Woodburn Pdf

A collection of papers given at a conference in London to mark the 20th anniversary of the Man the Hunter Symposium. The two volumes resulting from this conference present new information on the structure and evolution of hunter-gatherer societies.

Author : Alan Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183634

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Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology by Alan Barnard Pdf

The study of hunter-gatherers has had a profound impact on thinking about human nature and about the nature of society. The subject has especially influenced ideas on social evolution and on the development of human culture. Anthropologists and archaeologists continue to investigate living hunter-gatherers and the remains of past hunter-gatherer societies in the hope of unearthing the secrets of our ancestors and learning something of the natural existence of humankind. Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology provides a definitive overview of hunter-gatherer historiography, from the earliest anthropological writings through to the present day. What can early visions of the hunter-gatherer tell us about the societies that generated them? How do diverse national traditions, such as American, Russian and Japanese, manifest themselves in hunter-gatherer research? What is the most up-to-date thinking on the subject and how does it reflect current trends within the social sciences? This book provides a much-needed overview of the history of thought on one of science's most intriguing subjects. It will serve as a landmark text for anthropologists, archaeologists and students researching anthropological theory or the history of social anthropology and related disciplines.

Author : Peter P. Schweitzer,Megan Biesele,Robert K. Hitchcock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 157181101X

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Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World by Peter P. Schweitzer,Megan Biesele,Robert K. Hitchcock Pdf

In light of negotiations now going on between people who rely on wild plants and animals and the governments of their territories about civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights, anthropologists explore dimensions of culture and pressures as they are manifested in particular peoples. Their 27 papers, from an August 1993 conference in Moscow, Russian, cover warfare and conflict resolution; resistance, identity, and the state; ecology, demography, and market issues; gender and representation; and world-view and religious determination. The examples come from most of the world's continents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christopher Healey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520337831

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Maring Hunters and Traders by Christopher Healey Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.