Author : Sergey Gabbasov
Publisher : Litres
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 504229855X
In this book the author analyzes different groups of hunters and gatherers which live around the coast of Indian Ocean – from the hill jungles of North Thailand to the sandy shores of South Madagascar, from the foothills of Himalaya to the savannahs of central India and deep forests of Sri Lanka.The research is based on the big fieldwork expedition experience and huge bibliography references.
Author : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107003687
Offers a linguistic window into contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, looking at how they survive and interface with agricultural and industrial societies.
Author : Michael J. Moratto
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1483277356
California Archaeology provides a compilation of knowledge for archeologists who are not California specialists. This book explains important cultural events and patterns discovered archeologically. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of California's historic and ancient environments as well as the evidence of Pleistocene human activity. This text then examines the glacial and other environmental conditions that would have influenced the origins, adaptations, and spread of the earliest North Americans. Other chapters consider how California's past is relevant to a wider understanding of human behavior. This book discusses as well the perceptions of Central Coast and San Francisco Bay region prehistory that have changed rapidly as a result of intensive fieldwork performed to comply with environmental law. The final chapter deals with the data of historical linguistics, which indicate something of the cultural relationships and events that might have occurred in the past. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists.
Author : Robert K. Hitchcock
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 193877020X
Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of information in different ways and with different sets of data given different primacy. The fundamental goal of the volume is to bridge disciplines and subdisciplines, open discussion, and see if some common ground-either theoretical perspectives, general principles, or methodologies-can be developed upon which to build future research on the role of information in hunter-gatherer bands.
Author : James Trefil
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0805072489
Prize-winning theoretical physicist and outspoken advocate for scientific literacy Trefil looks squarely at our environmental future and finds--contrary to popular wisdom--reason to celebrate.
Author : Vincent L. Gaffney
Publisher : Council for British Archaeology
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN :
This excellent book, which deserves a wide readership, reports on the work of the North Sea Palaeolandscapes Project, which has been researching the fascinating lost landscape of Doggerland which until the end of the last Ice Age connected Britain to the continent in the North Sea area. It aims to make the findings available to a general readership, and show just how impressive they have been, with nearly 23,000km2 mapped. The techniques used to reconstruct the landscape are explained, and conclusions and speculation about the climate and vegetation of the area in the Mesolithic offered. It also tells the story of the rediscovery of Doggerland, and the Mesolithic landscape more generally, from the pioneering work of Clement Reid in the nineteenth century, to the research of Grahame Clark and Bryony Coles in the twentieth. It's also worth pointing out just how well produced and illustrated the book is, and one can only hope that it can spark public interest in a comparatively little known phase of our prehistory.
Author : William M. Leary
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682473481
Combating bureaucratic resistance, dwindling funds, untested equipment, and savage weather conditions, the small American team of researchers and intelligence specialists raced against time to take advantage of a rare opportunity to assess the Soviets' progress in meteorology, oceanography, and especially submarine detection - before the station disintegrated. The key to success was the Fulton Skyhook, a new technology designed to snatch the men from the ice on a 500-foot, balloon lifted line and reel them up into a specially outfitted B-17 bomber traveling at 125 knots.
Author : Michael Wilken-Robertson
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781941384305
For thousands of years, the Kumeyaay people of northern Baja California and southern California made their homes in the diverse landscapes of the region, interacting with native plants and continuously refining their botanical knowledge. Today, many Kumeyaay Indians in the far-flung ranches of Baja California carry on the traditional knowledge and skills for transforming native plants into food, medicine, arts, tools, regalia, construction materials, and ceremonial items. Kumeyaay Ethnobotany explores the remarkable interdependence between native peoples and native plants of the Californias through in-depth descriptions of 47 native plants and their uses, lively narratives, and hundreds of vivid photographs. It connects the archaeological and historical record with living cultures and native plant specialists who share their ever-relevant wisdom for future generations. Book jacket.
Author : Chris Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1107190762
The first full history of a great commercial and political center that rose in Asia over almost five centuries.
Author : Coad, L.
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
Category :
ISBN : 602387083X
The meat of wild species, referred to in this report as ‘wild meat’, is an essential source of protein and a generator of income for millions of forest-living communities in tropical and subtropical regions. However, unsustainable harvest rates currently
