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How can we map differing perceptions of the living environment? Mapping the Unmappable? explores the potential of cartography to communicate the relations of Africa's indigenous peoples with other human and non-human actors within their environments. These relations transcend Western dichotomies such as culture-nature, human-animal, natural-supernatural. The volume brings two strands of research - cartography and »relational« anthropology - into a closer dialogue. It provides case studies in Africa as well as lessons to be learned from other continents (e.g. North America, Asia and Australia). The contributors create a deepened understanding of indigenous ontologies for a further decolonization of maps, and thus advance current debates in the social sciences.

Africa; Anthropology; Critical Cartography; Relational Ontologies; Hunter-gatherers; Indigenous Peoples; Culture; Nature; Space; Human Ecology; Cultural Geography; Cultural Anthropology; Geography --- Anthropology. --- Critical Cartography. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Cultural Geography. --- Culture. --- Geography. --- Human Ecology. --- Hunter-gatherers. --- Indigenous Peoples. --- Nature. --- Relational Ontologies. --- Space.

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This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. A model is proposed that links regional settlement patterns and intersite lithic assemblage variability to residential mobility. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis seasonally. The implications of this result are discussed in the context of the development of hunter-gatherer cultural complexity in general and the course of Japanese prehistory in particular.

Hunting and gathering societies --- Jōmon culture. --- Assemblage Variability. --- Cultural Complexity. --- Hunter-Gatherers. --- Intersite Lithic. --- Japanese Prehistory. --- Residential Mobility.

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Hunting and gathering societies --- Chasseurs-cueilleurs --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting

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Hunting and gathering societies. --- Chasseurs-cueilleurs --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting

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How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.

Hunting and gathering societies. --- Warfare, Prehistoric. --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Prehistoric peoples --- Prehistoric warfare --- Warfare