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Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience

A Bioarchaeological Perspective

Daniel H. Temple (George Mason University, Virginia) Christopher M. Stojanowski (Arizona State University)

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English
Cambridge University Press
06 December 2018
Hunter-gatherer lifestyles defined the origins of modern humans and for tens of thousands of years were the only form of subsistence our species knew. This changed with the advent of food production, which occurred at different times throughout the world. The chapters in this volume explore the different ways that hunter-gatherer societies around the world adapted to changing social and ecological circumstances while still maintaining a predominantly hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Couched specifically within the framework of resilience theory, the authors use contextualized bioarchaeological analyses of health, diet, mobility, and funerary practices to explore how hunter-gatherers responded to challenges and actively resisted change that diminished the core of their social identity and worldview.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   81
Dimensions:   Height: 252mm,  Width: 177mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   950g
ISBN:   9781107187351
ISBN 10:   1107187354
Series:   Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
Pages:   404
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Daniel H. Temple is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at George Mason University. His research focuses on the life history, diet, mortuary ritual, and evolutionary morphology of hunter-gatherer populations from Northeast Asia and North America, specifically Japan, Siberia, Alaska, and Florida. He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on topics including growth and development, life history theory, enamel microstructures and stress, hunter-gatherer mortuary ritual, ecogeographic adaptation, functional adaptation, biodistance analysis, and prehistoric diet. Christopher M. Stojanowski is a Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University. He has written on diverse topics in anthropology including the bioarchaeology of colonial period peoples of south-eastern America, on early and middle Holocene populations of North Africa, and on dental anthropology and biological distance. His work is bioarchaeological in focus, specializing in the analysis of human remains and dentition. He has authored over sixty peer reviewed articles and chapters and has written three single authored books, one of which, The Bioarchaeology of Ethnogenesis in the Colonial Southeast (2010), was awarded the James Mooney Prize of the Southern Anthropological Society in 2010.

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