Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory

✍ Scribed by Robert L. Bettinger (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 268
Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Progressive Social Evolution and Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 1-29
The History of Americanist Hunter-Gatherer Research....Pages 31-60
Middle-Range Theory and Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 61-82
Hunter-Gatherers as Optimal Foragers....Pages 83-111
More Complex Models of Optimal Behavior among Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 113-130
Marxist and Structural Marxist Perspectives of Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 131-149
Neo-Darwinian Theory and Hunter-Gatherers....Pages 151-179
Hunter-Gatherers and Neo-Darwinian Cultural Transmission....Pages 181-211
Hunter-Gatherers: Problems in Theory....Pages 213-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-257

✦ Subjects

Archaeology

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