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Thoughtful foragers
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ISBN: 0521355702 052110288X 0511752962 9780521355704 9780511752964 9780521102889 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Thoughtful Foragers is about hunter-gatherer decision making. The author explores the implications of the human mind as a product of biological evolution for the way in which humans solve foraging problems. He draws on studies form ethology, psychology and ethnography prior to turning his attention to prehistoric hunter-gatherers. He attempts to construct explanations for patterns in the archaeological record by an explicit focus on decision making by individuals. Thoughtful Foragers will appeal to specialists in European prehistory as well as to those interested in archaeological theory and method. It makes some very significant advances, which will be of real importance for the field of evolutionary theory in relation to human evolution and the evaluation of human social systems.

Survival by Hunting
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ISBN: 1282356224 9786612356223 0520927966 9780520927964 9780520231900 0520231902 9781282356221 6612356227 Year: 2004 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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The North American Great Plains and Rocky Mountains have yielded many artifacts and other clues about the prehistoric people who once lived there, but little is understood about the hunting practices that ensured their survival for thousands of years. Noted archaeologist George Frison brings a lifetime of experience as a hunter, rancher, and guide to bear on excavation data from the region relating to hunting, illuminating prehistoric hunting practices in entirely new ways. Sharing his intimate knowledge of animal habitats and behavior and his familiarity with hunting strategies and techniques, Frison argues that this kind of firsthand knowledge is crucial for understanding hunting in the past.

Mesolithic forest hunters in Ukrainian Polessye
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ISBN: 0860548503 Year: 1997 Volume: 659 Publisher: Oxford Tempus reparatum

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Hunting strategies in Central Europe during the last glacial maximum
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ISBN: 0860549127 Year: 1997 Volume: 672 Publisher: Oxford Hedges

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Reassessing paleolithic subsistence : the Neandertal and modern human foragers of Saint-Césaire
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ISBN: 9781107023277 1107023270 110723185X 1280394234 9786613572158 1139337998 1139340441 1139342029 1139337122 1139338862 1139150979 9781139150972 9781139338868 9781139340441 9781139337120 1139334530 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Cambridge University Press

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"In the field of human evolution, few subjects have generated as much controversy as the fate of the Neandertals. Most debates have centered on the problem of their affiliation with early modern humans. This book examines the hypothesis that Neandertals and early modern humans differed in terms of subsistance. To assess this hypothesis, the analysis focuses on animal bones accumulated by these groups at Saint-Cesaire, a collapsed cave in western France. The faunal evidence suggests that Neandertals and early modern humans exploited a similar range of game species"--Résumé de l'éditeur.


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Rough and tumble
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ISBN: 0520955129 9780520955127 9780520274006 0520274008 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Travis Rayne Pickering argues that the advent of ambush hunting approximately two million years ago marked a milestone in human evolution, one that established the social dynamic that allowed our ancestors to expand their range and diet. He challenges the traditional link between aggression and human predation, however, claiming that while aggressive attack is a perfectly efficient way for our chimpanzee cousins to kill prey, it was a hopeless tactic for early human hunters, who-in comparison to their large, potentially dangerous prey-were small, weak, and slow-footed. Technology that evolved from wooden spears to stone-tipped spears and ultimately to the bow and arrow increased the distance between predator and prey and facilitated an emotional detachment that allowed hunters to stalk and kill large game. Based on studies of humans and of other primates, as well as on fossil and archaeological evidence, Rough and Tumble offers a new perspective on human evolution by decoupling ideas of aggression and predation to build a more realistic understanding of what it is to be human.

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