Beyond Foraging and Collecting

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Introduction: Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems

      • Junko Habu, Ben Fitzhugh

      Pages 1-11

3. Regional Scale Processes of Settlement Pattern Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-17

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   2. Going by Boat

      • Kenneth M. Ames

      Pages 19-52

   3. Jomon Collectors and Foragers

      • Junko Habu

      Pages 53-72

   4. Logistical Organization, Social Complexity, and the Collapse of Prehistoric Thule Whaling Societies in the Central Canadian Arctic Archipelago

      • James M. Savelle

      Pages 73-90

   5. Natufian

      • Ofer Bar-Yosef

      Pages 91-149

   6. Mobility, Search Modes, and Food-Getting Technology

      • Lynn E. Fisher

      Pages 157-179

4. Microevolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-155

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   2. Long-term Land Tenure Systems in Central Brazil

      • Renato Kipnis

      Pages 181-230

   3. Central Place Foraging and Prehistoric Pinyon Utilization in the Great Basin

      • David W. Zeanah

      Pages 231-256

   4. Residential and Logistical Strategies in the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago

      • Ben Fitzhugh

      Pages 257-304

   5. Sacred Power and Seasonal Settlement on the Central Northwest Coast

      • Aubrey Cannon

      Pages 311-338

   6. Long-term Change and Short-term Shifting in the Economy of Philippine Forager-Traders

      • Laura Lee Junker

      Pages 339-386

5. Beyond Ecological Approaches to Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-309

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   2. Explaining Changes in Settlement Dynamics across Transformations of Modes of Production

      • Mark Aldenderfer

      Pages 387-412

   3. Sacred Power and Seasonal Settlement on the Central Northwest Coast

      • Alibrey Cannon

      Pages 311-338

   4. Long-term Change and Short-term Shifting in the Economy of Philippine Forager-Traders

      • Laura Lee Junker

      Pages 339-386

   5. Explaining Changes in Settlement Dynamics across Transformations of Modes of Production

      • Mark Aldenderfer

      Pages 387-412

LEWIS R. BINFORD AND AMBER L. JOHNSON The organizers of this volume have brought together authors who have worked on local sequences, much as traditional archaeologists tended to do, however, with the modern goal of addressing evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer systems over long time spans. Given this ambitious goal they wisely chose to ask the authors to build their treatments around a focal question, the utility of the forager-eollector continuum (Binford 1980) for research on archaeological sequences. Needless to say, Binford was flat­ tered by their choice and understandably read the papers with a great deal of interest. When he was asked to write the foreword to this provoca­ tive book he expected to learn new things and in this he has not been disappointed. The common organizing questions addressed among the contributors to this volume are simply, how useful is the forager-eollector continuum for explanatory research on sequences, and what else might we need to know to explain evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer adaptations? Most sequences document systems change, in some sense. Though we don't necessarily know how much synchronous systemic variability there might have been relative to the documented sequence, most authors have tried to address the problem of within systems variability. In this sense, most are operating with sophistication not seen among traditional culture historians. The primary problem for archaeologists of the generation prior to Binford was how to date archaeological materials.

• Early Mesolithic
• Evolution
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• collector model
• evolutionary change
• evolutionary ecology
• forager
• geographical distribution
• hunter-gatherer
• hunter-gatherer settlement
• mesolithic
• settlement systems

"[...]important work that will be widely read by professionals and students alike. [...] The editors should be congratulated for pulling together this excellent review of the state of the art in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence research in archaeology."
(SAS Bulletin, 26:2, 2003)

"Binford's work stopped short of examining evolutionary change in mobility and subsistence regimes over long time spans. Ben Fitzhugh and Junko Habu's edited volume, Beyond Foraging and Collecting, provides this critical next step.  Foragers and Collectors is an important work that will be widely read for professionals and students alike despite its high price tag.  The editors should be congratulated for pulling together this excellent review of the state of the art in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence research in archaeology." (Society of Archaeological Sciences Bulletin; 26:2)

 

• University of Washington, Seattle, USA

  Ben Fitzhugh

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Junko Habu

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