Human Predators And Prey Mortality

Mary Stiner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-16248-1 (ISBN)

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Drawing from a wide variety of human societies and prey species, this book seeks to validate the importance of mortality studies for understanding modern and prehistoric human ecology. In a presentation that sets out to be both methodologically and theoretically innovative, the contributors combine archaeological and actualistic approaches with se

Introduction: Actualistic and Archaeological Studies of Prey Mortality -- Hunting Strategies, Prey Behavior and Mortality Data -- Taphonomy and Early Hominid Behavior: Problems in Distinguishing Cultural and Non-Cultural Agents -- Examining and Refining the Quadratic Crown Height Method of Age Estimation -- Procurement Technology and Prey Mortality Among Indigenous Neotropical Hunters -- Nonselective Small Game Hunting Strategies: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Aka Pygmy Sites -- Prey Size and Age Models of Prehistoric Hominid Scavenging: Test Cases from the Serengeti -- An Interspecific Perspective on the Emergence of the Modern Human Predatory Niche -- Subsistence Change and Pinniped Hunting -- Thule Eskimo Subsistence and Bowhead Whale Procurement -- Seasonality Studies and Paleoindian Subsistence Strategies

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 225 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-16248-2 / 0367162482
ISBN-13	978-0-367-16248-1 / 9780367162481
Zustand	Neuware