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Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

By Peter Hiscock , Mike Smith , Peter Veth

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2005
ISBN
9781405100915, 1405100915, 1405100907, 9781405100908, 9781405137539
LCC
GN390 .D47 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3930653 bytes)
Pages
320\322
Topic
History Archaeology
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists

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