Journal ArticleDOI
Hunter-Gatherers and Their Neighbors from Prehistory to the Present [and Comments and Replies]
Thomas N. Headland,Lawrence A. Reid,M. G. Bicchieri,Charles A. Bishop,Robert A. Blust,Nicholas E. Flanders,Peter M. Gardner,Karl L. Hutterer,Arkadiusz Marciniak,Robert F. Schroeder,Stefan Seitz +10 more
About:
This article is published in Current Anthropology.The article was published on 1989-02-01. It has received 244 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Prehistory.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
TL;DR: The current global extent, duration, type and intensity of human transformation of ecosystems have already irreversibly altered the terrestrial biosphere at levels sufficient to leave an unambiguous geological record differing substantially from that of the Holocene or any prior epoch.
Journal Article
Anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
TL;DR: In this article, the Earth system has entered a new geological epoch, spatially explicit global estimates of human populations and their use of land were analysed across the Holocene for their potential to induce irreversible novel transformation of the terrestrial biosphere.
Book
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
TL;DR: Kelly as mentioned in this paper reviewed 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, and argued for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.
Journal ArticleDOI
Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and War in Nomadic Hunter-Gatherers
TL;DR: The hypothesis that intergroup aggression evolved according to the same functional principles in the two species—selection favoring a tendency to kill members of neighboring groups when killing could be carried out safely is evaluated.
Journal ArticleDOI
The intensification of production: Archaeological approaches
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reexamine the Boserup model of agricultural intensification and archaeological reaction to it, and suggest that the course of intensification is complex and variable.
References
More filters
Book
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
TL;DR: Time and the Other as discussed by the authors is a critique of the notions that anthropologists are "here and now," their objects of study are "there and then", and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own.
Book
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
TL;DR: Taussig as discussed by the authors used the image of the Indian shaman as Wild Man to reveal not the magic of the shaman but that of the politicizing fictions creating the effect of the real.
Journal ArticleDOI
The !Kung San: Men, Women, and Work in a Foraging Society
Elizabeth Cashdan,Richard B. Lee +1 more
TL;DR: The!Kung ecology and society as mentioned in this paper is a good starting point for a discussion of ecology and social change in the Dobe region of South-West Africa, focusing on the allocation of nutritional stress and the use of space.
Book
Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
TL;DR: Indo-Malaysians of the last 40000 years as mentioned in this paper have been studied extensively in the last few decades in the field of pre-history, including the Hoabinhians and their islandcontemporaries.
Related Papers (5)
The Wild Yam Question: How Well Could Independent Hunter-Gatherers Live in a Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem?
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Jacqueline S. Solway,Richard B. Lee,Alan Barnard,M. G. Bicchieri,Alec C. Campbell,James Denbow,Robert Gordon,Mathias Guenther,Henry Harpending,Patricia Draper,Robert K. Hitchcock,Tim Ingold,L. Jacobson,Susan Kent,Pnina Motzafi-Haller,Thomas C. Patterson,Carmel Schrire,Bruce G. Trigger,Polly Wiessner,Edwin N. Wilmsen,John E. Yellen,Aram A. Yengoyan +21 more