-A required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies.- --American Journal of Human Biology -This excellent book can serve both as a text1/4book and as a scholarly reference.- --American Scientist
-A required reading for anyone interested in the economy, ecology, and demography of human societies.- --American Journal of Human Biology ...
This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions in human history: the origins of agriculture. Carefully balancing theory and detailed empirical study, and drawing from a series of ethnographic and archaeological case studies from eleven locations--including North and South America, Mesoamerica, Europe, the Near East, Africa, and the Pacific--the contributors to this volume examine the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and...
This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to ...
Evolutionary ecology has grown into an exciting and dynamic area of research in the biological sciences. Only recently, however, has there been noteworthy progress in adapting theory, concepts, and models from this fi eld for analysis of human behavior and evolution.
Evolutionary ecology has grown into an exciting and dynamic area of research in the biological sciences. Only recently, however, has there been notewo...
