Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Ethnographic and Archeological Analyses

Bibliographic Collection:

Anthropogeny

Publication Type: Book

Authors: Winterhalder, Bruce; Smith, Eric Alden; American Anthropological Association.

Year of Publication: 1981

Series Title: Prehistoric Archeology and Ecology

Number of Pages: 268

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

City: Chicago

Publication Language: eng

ISBN Number: 0226902188

Keywords: Human ecology., Hunting and gathering societies, Indians of North America Hunting

Abstract:

New perspectives on hunter-gatherer socioecology / Eric Alden Smith and Bruce Winterhalder -- Optimal foraging strategies and hunter-gatherer research in anthropology / Bruce Winterhalder -- The application of optimal foraging theory to the analysis of hunter-gatherer group size / Eric Alden Smith -- Foraging strategies in the Boreal Forest / Bruce Winterhalder -- Alyawara plant use and optimal foraging theory / James F. O’Connell and Kristen Hawkes -- The relationship between Northern Athapaskan settlement patterns and resource distribution / Sheri Heffley -- Archeological applications of optimal foraging theory / David R. Yesner -- Optimal foraging in a nonmarginal environment / Arthur S. Keene -- The effects of information networks in hunter-gatherer societies / James A. Moore -- Overview : optimal foraging analysis in human ecology / William H. Durham.

URL: http://lccn.loc.gov/81001366

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