Beyond Foraging and Collecting

Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems

By: Ben Fitzhugh (Editor), Junko Habu (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 October 2002

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LEWIS R. BINFORD AND AMBER L. JOHNSON The organizers of this volume have brought together authors who have worked on local sequences, much as traditional archaeologists tended to do, however, with the modern goal of addressing evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer systems over long time spans. Given this ambitious goal they wisely chose to ask the authors to build their treatments around a focal question, the utility of the forager-eollector continuum (Binford 1980) for research on archaeological sequences. Needless to say, Binford was flat- tered by their choice and understandably read the papers with a great deal of interest. When he was asked to write the foreword to this provoca- tive book he expected to learn new things and in this he has not been disappointed. The common organizing questions addressed among the contributors to this volume are simply, how useful is the forager-eollector continuum for explanatory research on sequences, and what else might we need to know to explain evolutionary change in hunter-gatherer adaptations? Most sequences document systems change, in some sense. Though we don't necessarily know how much synchronous systemic variability there might have been relative to the documented sequence, most authors have tried to address the problem of within systems variability. In this sense, most are operating with sophistication not seen among traditional culture historians. The primary problem for archaeologists of the generation prior to Binford was how to date archaeological materials.

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"[...]important work that will be widely read by professionals and students alike. [...] The editors should be congratulated for pulling together this excellent review of the state of the art in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence research in archaeology."
(SAS Bulletin, 26:2, 2003)

"Binford's work stopped short of examining evolutionary change in mobility and subsistence regimes over long time spans. Ben Fitzhugh and Junko Habu's edited volume, Beyond Foraging and Collecting, provides this critical next step. Foragers and Collectors is an important work that will be widely read for professionals and students alike despite its high price tag. The editors should be congratulated for pulling together this excellent review of the state of the art in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence research in archaeology." (Society of Archaeological Sciences Bulletin; 26:2)

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Introduction: Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Evolutionary Change in Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems	p. 1
Regional Scale Processes of Settlement Pattern Change
Introduction to Part I	p. 15
Going by Boat: The Forager-Collector Continuum at Sea	p. 19
Jomon Collectors and Foragers: Regional Interactions and Long-term Changes in Settlement Systems among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Japan	p. 53
Logistical Organization, Social Complexity, and the Collapse of Prehistoric Thule Whaling Societies in the Central Canadian Arctic Archipelago	p. 73
Natufian: A Complex Society of Foragers	p. 91
Microevolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Change
Introduction to Part II	p. 153
Mobility, Search Modes, and Food-Getting Technology: From Magdalenian to Early Mesolithic in the Upper Danube Basin	p. 157
Long-term Land Tenure Systems in Central Brazil: Evolutionary Ecology, Risk-Management, and Social Geography	p. 181
Central Place Foraging and Prehistoric Pinyon Utilization in the Great Basin	p. 231
Residential and Logistical Strategies in the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago	p. 257
Beyond Ecological Approaches to Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Change
Introduction to Part III	p. 307
Sacred Power and Seasonal Settlement on the Central Northwest Coast	p. 311
Long-term Change and Short-term Shifting in the Economy of Philippine Forager-Traders	p. 339
Explaining Changes in Settlement Dynamics across Transformations of Modes of Production: From Hunting to Herding in the South-Central Andes	p. 387
Afterword: Beyond Foraging and Collecting: Retrospect and Prospect	p. 413
Index	p. 427
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