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Internet-Journalismus : ein Leitfaden für ein neues Medium
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ISBN: 389669233X Year: 1998 Volume: 35 Publisher: Konstanz : UVK Medien,

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A hunter-gatherer landscape : southwest Germany in the late Paleolithic and Mesolithic
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ISBN: 0306457415 0306457407 9780306457418 0306454707 1441986642 Year: 1998 Volume: *8 Publisher: New York Plenum Press

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As an archaeologist with primary research and training experience in North American arid lands, I have always found the European Stone Age remote and impenetrable. My initial introduction, during a survey course on world prehis­ tory, established that (for me, at least) it consisted of more cultures, dates, and named tool types than any undergraduate ought to have to remember. I did not know much, but I knew there were better things I could be doing on a Saturday night. In any event, after that I never seriously entertained any notion of pur­ suing research on Stone Age Europe-that course was enough for me. That's a pity, too, because Paleolithic Europe-especially in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene-was the scene of revolutionary human adaptive change. Iron­ ically, all of it was amenable to investigation using precisely the same models and analytical tools I ended up spending the better part of two decades applying in the Great Basin of western North America. Back then, of course, few were thinking about the late Paleolithic or Me­ solithic in such terms. Typology, classification, and chronology were the order of the day, as the text for my undergraduate course reflected. Jochim evidently bridled less than I at the task of mastering these chronotaxonomic mysteries, yet he was keenly aware of their limitations-in particular, their silence on how individual assemblages might be connected as part of larger regional subsis­ tence-settlement systems.

Coming home to the Pleistocene
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ISBN: 159726847X 1417594233 9781417594238 9781597268479 1559635894 1559635908 9781559635899 9781559635905 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,

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Paul Shepard was one of the most profound and original thinkers of our time. Seminal works like The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, Thinking Animals, and Nature and Madness introduced readers to new and provocative ideas about humanity and its relationship to the natural world. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Shepard returned repeatedly to his guiding theme, the central tenet of his thought: that our essential human nature is a product of our genetic heritage, formed through thousands of years of evolution during the Pleistocene epoch, and that the current subversion of that Pleistocene heritage lies at the heart of today's ecological and social ills. Coming Home to the Pleistocene provides the fullest explanation of that theme. The book explicitly addresses the fundamental question raised by Shepard's work: What can we do to re-create a life more in tune with our genetic roots? In this book, Shepard presents concrete suggestions for fostering the kinds of ecological settings and cultural practices that are optimal for human health and well-being.


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Before food production in North Africa : questions and tools dealing with resource exploitation and population dynamics at 12,000-7,000 bp
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ISBN: 8886712502 9788886712507 Year: 1998 Publisher: Forlì A.B.A.C.O.

Montane Foragers : Asana and the south-central Andean archaic
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ISBN: 0877456216 Year: 1998 Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,

Green versus gold : sources in California's environmental history
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ISBN: 9781559635554 155963555X 1597260304 1597268747 1429495324 9781429495325 9781597260305 9781597260299 1597260290 9781597269193 1597269190 9781597268745 1597260290 1417539518 9781417539512 1597268828 9781597268820 1559635878 9781559635875 1559635878 9781559635875 1559635886 9781559635882 1610912756 1423707796 9781423707790 9781610912754 1559635797 9781559635790 1559635800 9781559635806 Year: 1998 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,

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For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Most if not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society -- from depletion of natural capital to the ever-present possibility of global annihilation -- would be inconceivable to these traditional, immediate-return societies. In fact, hunter-gatherer societies appear to have solved problems of production, distribution, and social and environmental sustainability that our own culture seems incapable of addressing. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means examines the hunter-gatherer society and lifestyle from a variety of perspectives. It provides a brief introduction to the rich anthropological and sociological literature on non-agricultural societies, bringing together in one volume seminal writings on the few remaining hunter-gatherer cultures including, the !Kung, the Hadza, and the Aborigines. It examines the economics of traditional societies, and concludes with a multifaceted investigation of how such societies function and what they can teach us in our own quest for environmental sustainability and social equality. Limited Wants, Unlimited Means is an important work for students of cultural anthropology, economic anthropology, environmental studies, and sustainable development, as well as for professionals, researchers, and anyone interested in prehistoric societies, environmental sustainability, or social justice.
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Hunting and gathering societies. --- Human ecology. --- Sustainable development. --- Chasseurs-cueilleurs --- Ecologie humaine --- Développement durable --- Habitat conservation --- Biodiversity conservation --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Conservation of habitat --- Habitat preservation --- Habitat protection --- Habitat (Ecology) --- Preservation of habitat --- Protection of habitat --- Nature conservation --- Finance. --- Conservation --- Protection --- Conservation of Natural Resources --- Finance --- economics --- E-books --- Carrying Capacity --- Deforestation --- Desertification --- Environmental Protection --- Natural Resources Conservation --- Protection, Environmental --- Capacities, Carrying --- Capacity, Carrying --- Carrying Capacities --- Conservation, Natural Resources --- Natural Resources --- Protected areas --- Lands, Preserved --- Lands, Protected --- Preserved lands --- Protected lands --- Reserves (Protected areas) --- Public lands --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology --- History. --- California --- Environmental conditions --- Hunting and gathering societies

The globalization of news
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ISBN: 1446250261 1446238024 1282622978 9786612622977 0857026151 9780857026156 9781446250266 0761953868 9780761953869 0761953876 9780761953876 9781446238028 9781282622975 Year: 1998 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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'The Globalization of News' aims to demonstrate just how the news agencies have contributed to the process of globalisation and simultaneously, to the process of national construction.

Local organizational adaptations to climatic change : the Last Glacial Maximum in central Europe and the case of Grubgraben (Lower Austria)
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ISBN: 0860548848 Year: 1998 Volume: 698 Publisher: Oxford : Archaeopress,

In the beginning : the Navajo genesis
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ISBN: 0520920570 0585165629 9780520920576 9780585165622 0520211286 0520212770 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press

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This analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans.

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