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Hunting. --- Hunting stories, American. --- American hunting stories --- American fiction --- Chase, The --- Field sports --- Gunning --- Harvesting (Hunting) --- Hunting for sport --- Hunting, Primitive --- Recreational hunting --- Sport hunting --- Wildlife-related recreation --- Safaris --- Trapping

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The people who inhabited Southwest Europe from 30,000 to 13,000 years ago are often portrayed as big game hunters – and indeed, in some locations (Cantabrian Spain, the Pyrenees, the Dordogne) the archaeological record supports this interpretation. But in other places, notably Mediterranean Iberia, the inhabitants focused their hunting efforts on smaller game, such as rabbits, fish, and birds. Were they less effective hunters? Were these environments depleted of red deer and other large game? Or is this evidence of Paleolithic people’s adaptability? This volume explores these questions, along the way delving into the history of the “bigger equals better” assumption; optimal foraging theory and niche construction theory; and patterns of environmental and subsistence change across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.

Social sciences. --- Anthropology. --- Social Sciences. --- Paleolithic period --- Hunting, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric peoples --- Food --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Hunting, Primitive --- Hunting and foraging, Prehistoric --- Hunting and gathering, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric hunting --- Eolithic period --- Old Stone age --- Palaeolithic period --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Stone age --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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" Foraging persists as a viable economic strategy both in remote regions and within the bounds of developed nation-states. Given the economic alternatives available, why do some groups choose to maintain their hunting and gathering lifeways? Through a series of detailed case studies, the contributors to this volume examine the decisions made by modern-day foragers to sustain a predominantly hunting and gathering way of life. What becomes clear is that hunter-gatherers continue to forage because the economic benefits of doing so are high relative to the local alternatives and, perhaps more importantly, because the social costs of not foraging are prohibitive; in other words, hunter-gatherers value the social networks built through foraging and sharing more than the potential marginal gains of a new means of subsistence. Why Forage? shows that hunting and gathering continues to be a viable and vibrant way of life even in the twenty-first century."--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Economic anthropology. --- Subsistence hunting. --- Subsistence farming. --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Commerce, Primitive --- Economics, Primitive --- Economics --- Ethnology --- Subsistence harvest of wildlife --- Subsistence use of wildlife --- Hunting --- Subsistence economy --- Wildlife utilization --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Farming, Subsistence --- Subsistence agriculture --- Subsistence harvest of farm produce --- Subsistence use of farm produce --- Agriculture --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Subsistence hunting

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"This book brings together the work of archaeologists investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherers (foragers) and early farmers in both the Southwest and the Great Basin. Most previous work on this topic has been regionally specific, with researchers from each area favoring a different theoretical approach and little shared dialogue. Here the studies of archaeologists working in both the Southwest and the Great Basin are presented side by side to illustrate the similarities in environmental challenges and cultural practices of the prehistoric peoples who lived in these areas and to explore common research questions addressed by both regions. Three main themes link these papers: the role of the environment in shaping prehistoric behavior, flexibility in foraging and farming adaptations, and diversity in settlement strategies. Contributors cover a range of topics including the varied ways hunter-gatherers adapted to arid environments, the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and the reasons for it, the variation in early farmers across the Southwest and Great Basin, and the differing paths followed as they developed settled villages"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Social archaeology --- Environmental archaeology --- Land settlement --- Desert people --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Prehistoric peoples --- Indians of North America --- Archaeology --- Archaeology, Environmental --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Desert peoples --- Ethnology --- Prehistoric agriculture --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Subsistence hunting --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Methodology --- Agriculture --- Food --- Culture --- Great Basin --- Southwest, New --- Primitive societies