Desert peoples : archaeological perspectives
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Hiscock, Peter, 1957-
Smith, Mike, 1955- Veth, Peter Marius. |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Malden, MA :
Blackwell Publ.,
2005.
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| Umfang/Format: |
x, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis
- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok
- Pleistocene settlement of deserts from an Australian perspective / Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis
- Arid paradises of dangerous landscapes : a review of explanations for paleolithic-assemblage change in arid Australia and Africa / Peter Hiscock and Sue O'Connor
- Evolutionary and ecological understandings of the economics of desert societies : comparing the Great Basin USA and the Australian deserts / Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird
- Cycles of aridity and human mobility : risk minimization amongst Late Pleistocene foragers of the Western Desert, Australia / Peter Veth
- Archaic faces to head-dresses : the changing role of rock art across the arid zone / Jo McDonald
- The archaeology of the Patagonia deserts : hunter-gatherers in a cold desert / Luis Alberto Borrero
- Perspectives on later Stone Age hunter-gatherer archaeology in arid southern Africa / Anne Thackeray
- Long term transitions in hunter-gatherers of coastal northwest Australia / Kathryn Przywolnik
- Hunter-gatherers and herders of the Kalahari during the Late Holocene / Karim Sadr
- Desert archaeology, linguistic stratigraphy, and the spread of the western desert language / Mike Smith
- People of the coastal Atacama Desert : living between sand dunes and waves of the Pacific Ocean / Calogera M. Santoro, Bernardo T. Arriaza, Vivien G. Standen, and Pablo A. Marquet
- Desert solitude : the evolution of ideologies amongst pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in arid North Africa / Andrew B. Smith
- Hunter-gatherer interactions with sheep and cattle pastoralists from the Australian arid zone / Alistair Paterson
- Conclusion : major themes and future research directions / Peter Veth.
