Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives
by Editor: Peter Veth (Australian Insitute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies); Editor: Mike Smith (National Museum of Australia); Editor: Peter Hiscock (The Australian National Univ.)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Global Deserts in Perspective | |
| Frameworks: | |
| Theoretical Shifts in the Anthropology of Desert Hunter-Gatherers | |
| Pleistocene Settlement of Deserts from an Australian Perspective | |
| Arid Paradises of Dangerous Landscapes: A Review of Explanations for Paleolithic Assemblage Change in Arid Australia and Africa | |
| Dynamics: | |
| Evolutionary and Ecological Understandings of the Economics of Desert Societies: Comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian Deserts | |
| Cycles of Aridity and Human Mobility: Risk Minimization amongst Late Pleistocene Foragers of the Western Desert, Australia | |
| Archaic Faces to Head-Dresses: The Changing Role of Rock Art across the Arid Zone | |
| The Archaeology of the Patagonia Deserts: Hunter-Gatherers in a Cold Desert | |
| Interactions: | |
| Perspectives on Later Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Arid Southern Africa | |
| Long Term Transitions in Hunter-Gatherers of Coastal Northwest Australia | |
| Hunter-Gatherers and Herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene | |
| Desert Archaeology, Linguistic Stratigraphy, and the Spread of the Western Desert Language | |
| People of the Coastal Atacama Desert: Living between Sand Dunes and Waves of the Pacific Ocean | |
| Desert Solitude: The Evolution of Ideologies amongst Pastoralists and Hunter-Gatherers in Arid North Africa | |
| Hunter-Gatherer Interactions with Sheep and Cattle Pastoralists from the Australian Arid Zone | |
| Conclusion: Major Themes and Future Research Directions | |
| General Index | |
| Index of Archaelogical Features and Subjects | |
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