Information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands /

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Other Authors: Hitchcock, Robert K., Lovis, William A., Whallon, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Los Angeles] : UCLA/Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, ©2011.
Series:Ideas, debates, and perspectives ; v. 5.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands / Robert Whallon
  • Yupik Eskimo gendered information storage patterns / Caroline Funk
  • Space, information and knowledge : ethnocartography and North American boreal forest hunter-gatherers / William A. Lovis and Randolph E. Donahue
  • Modeling hunter-gatherer information networks : an archaeological case study from the Kuril Islands / Ben Fitzhugh, S. Colby Phillips, and Erik Gjesfjeld
  • Environmental knowledge among Central African hunter-gatherers : types of knowledge and intra-cultural variations / Mitsuo Ichikawa, Shiho Hattori, and Hirokazu Yasuoka
  • Where is that job? : hunter-gatherer information systems in complex social environments in the eastern Kalahari Desert, Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock and James I. Ebert
  • Borrowed names and indexical function in the northern Uto-Aztecan botanical lexicon / Jane H. Hill
  • Rite, ritual and materiality of information in Mesolithic Europe / Marek Zvelebil
  • The role of information exchange in the colonization of Sahul / Peter Veth [and others]
  • Information exchange amongst hunter-gatherers of the Western Desert of Australia / Jo McDonald and Peter Veth
  • Rock art information among hunter-gatherers in northwest Patagonia : an assessment of environmental and territorial models / Vivian Scheinsohn
  • Visits, "Fuegians" and information networks / Luis Alberto Borrero, Fabiana María Martin, and Ramiro Barberena
  • Foraging for information among foragers
  • an afterword / H. Martin Wobst
  • A synopsis of information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands / Robert Whallon and William A. Lovis.