Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research

Download or read book Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research written by Linda J. Ellanna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book offers the most up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research and contains possibly the most comprehensive bibliography on hunter-gatherers ever published. It will be essential reading for all students of hunter-gatherer societies.