For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disci

Hunter-gatherers are the quintessential anthropological topic. They constitute the subject matter that, in the last instance, separates anthropology from its si

The study of hunter-gatherers has had a profound impact on thinking about human nature and about the nature of society. The subject has especially influenced id

This 2001 volume is an interdisciplinary text on hunter-gatherer populations world-wide.

Challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their d