Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience: A Bioarchaeological Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 81) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107187354 ISBN 13: 9781107187351

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production, which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters in this volume explore the different ways that hunter-gatherer societies around the world adapted to changing social and ecological circumstances while still maintaining a predominantly hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Couched specifically within the framework of resilience theory, the authors use contextualized bioarchaeological analyses of health, diet, mobility, and funerary practices to explore how hunter-gatherers responded to challenges and actively resisted change that diminished the core of their social identity and worldview.

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Book Description

Readers will appreciate how hunter-gatherer societies have changed through time in ways that actively resist the notion of an evolutionary drive toward food production. This work creates a theoretically grounded 'bioarchaeology of hunter-gatherers' that advances our knowledge of lifestyles that dominated the human experience for most of prehistory.

About the Author

Daniel H. Temple is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. His research focuses on the life history, diet, mortuary ritual, and evolutionary morphology of hunter-gatherer populations from Northeast Asia and North America, specifically Japan, Siberia, Alaska, and Florida. He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on topics including growth and development, life history theory, enamel microstructures and stress, hunter-gatherer mortuary ritual, ecogeographic adaptation, functional adaptation, biodistance analysis, and prehistoric diet.

Christopher M. Stojanowski is a Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University. He has written on diverse topics in anthropology including the bioarchaeology of colonial period peoples of south-eastern America, on early and middle Holocene populations of North Africa, and on dental anthropology and biological distance. His work is bioarchaeological in focus, specializing in the analysis of human remains and dentition. He has authored over sixty peer reviewed articles and chapters and has written three single authored books, one of which, The Bioarchaeology of Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Southeast (2010), was awarded the James Mooney Prize of the Southern Anthropological Society in 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1107187354
• ISBN 13: 9781107187351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Temple Daniel H., Stojanowski Christopher M.