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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 April 2013
      15 April 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139176132
      9781107024878
      9781107607613
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139176132
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.94kg, 375 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 376 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Prehistory, Archaeology of The Americas, Area Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, Archaeology
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    In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.

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