Search Results

• • 263 

    Academic Journals

  • Sort by: sorttype.publication.date.desc Newest sorttype.publication.date.asc Oldest sorttype.relevance Relevance

• Select From sago to rice, from forest to town: the consequences of sedentarization for the nutritional ecology of Punan former hunter-gatherers of Borneo

  1

  From sago to rice, from forest to town: the consequences of sedentarization for the nutritional ecology of Punan former hunter-gatherers of Borneo

  Authors:E. Dounias, A. Selzner, M. Koizumi, and P. LevangFrom:Borneo Research Bulletin (Vol. 40)

  Annual 2009265 words Brief article Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 28(2) Suppl: S294-302. The last nomadic peoples of the world are facing strong governmental incentives to renounce their foraging lifestyle. Nevertheless, the shift to a sedentary way of...
• Select Hunters and gatherers in the modern world: conflict, resistance and self determination

  2

  Hunters and gatherers in the modern world: conflict, resistance and self determination

  From:Anthropologie et Societés (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20021,161 words Book review Peter P. SCHWEITZER, Megan BIESELE et Robert K. HITCHCOCK (dir.), Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World. Conflict, Resistance and Self Determination. New York et Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2000, 498 p., fig., tabl.,...
• Select RESPECT AND NONVIOLENCE AMONG RECENTLY SEDENTARY PALIYAN FORAGERS

  3

  RESPECT AND NONVIOLENCE AMONG RECENTLY SEDENTARY PALIYAN FORAGERS

  Author:PETER M. GARDNERFrom:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 6, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  June 200011,108 words Article Contrary to expectations (e.g. Bender 1978; Draper 1975; Kent 1989; 1990; Rafferty 1985), Paliyan foragers in south India remain relatively nonviolent when becoming sedentary. First, I review fifteen factors which are...
• Select COMPETITIVE AND COOPERATIVE RESPONSES TO CLIMATIC INSTABILITY IN COASTAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  4

  COMPETITIVE AND COOPERATIVE RESPONSES TO CLIMATIC INSTABILITY IN COASTAL SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  Authors:Douglas J. Kennett and James P. KennettFrom:American Antiquity (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 200010,669 words Article Archaeological data indicates that socially and politically complex hunter-gatherer societies had become well established on the southern California Coast by A.D. 1300. Major developmental changes in sociopolitical...
• Select Thomas DeGregori's "Back to the Future": A Comment

  5

  Thomas DeGregori's "Back to the Future": A Comment

  Author:John P. WatkinsFrom:Journal of Economic Issues (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20002,573 words Article It would be unfortunate if Thomas DeGregori's review of Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economies and the Environment, edited by John Gowdy [1998], dissuaded institutionalists from reading...
• Select Hunter-gatherer structural transformations

  6

  Hunter-gatherer structural transformations

  Author:David RichesFrom:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 1, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 199512,552 words Article A methodology for addressing structural transformation is illustrated with material from hunter-gatherer societies. A proper account of the transformation between types of social structure is in three basic steps. First,...
• Select Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa

  7

  Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa

  From:Nature (Vol. 463, Issue 7283) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 18, 20104,829 words Report 1570LThe genetic structure of the indigenous hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa, the oldest known lineage of modern human, is important for understanding human diversity. Studies based on mitochondrial (1) and small...
• Select The paleoecology of pinworms

  8

  The paleoecology of pinworms

  Author:Tim BatchelderFrom:Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (Issue 262) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20052,156 words Article I remember my first exposure to pinworms. I was participating in a field school practicing anthropological observation skills in a remote area of British Columbia. We had been sleeping outside for months, on the ground,...
• Select Early herders and monumental sites in eastern Africa: dating and interpretation

  9

  Early herders and monumental sites in eastern Africa: dating and interpretation

  Authors:Elisabeth Anne Hildebrand and Katherine M. GrilloFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 86, Issue 332) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20124,354 words Report 1420LUsing excavation and radiocarbon dating, the authors show that construction of megalithic pillar sites begins in eastern Africa by the fifth millennium BP, and is contemporary with the earliest herding in the region....
• Select Hunting dogs as environmental adaptations in Jomon Japan

  10

  Hunting dogs as environmental adaptations in Jomon Japan

  Author:Angela R. PerriFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 90, Issue 353) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20165,488 words Report 1430LWas the use of hunting dogs an adaptation to the post-glacial deciduous forest environment in the northern temperate zone? Dog burials in Jomon Japan appear closely associated with a specific environment and with a...
• Select First encounters in the north: cultural diversity and gene flow in Early Mesolithic Scandinavia.

  11

  First encounters in the north: cultural diversity and gene flow in Early Mesolithic Scandinavia.

  Authors:Mikael A. Manninen, Hege Damlien, Jan Ingolf Kleppe, Kjel Knutsson, Anton Murashkin, Anja R. Niemi, et al.From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 380) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20216,089 words Article 1500LPopulation genetic studies often overlook the evidence for variability and change in past material culture. Here, the authors use a Mesolithic example to demonstrate the importance of integrating archaeological evidence...
• Select Northernmost precontact maize in North America

  12

  Northernmost precontact maize in North America

  Authors:Matthew Boyd and Clarence SuretteFrom:American Antiquity (Vol. 75, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20108,469 words Report 1440LCorn (Zea mays ssp. mays) was a key economic plant in the Americas, yet little information exists on the northern limit of maize consumption before European contact. Based on the analysis of carbonized food residue on...
• Select Adaptive cycles of coastal hunter-gatherers

  13

  Adaptive cycles of coastal hunter-gatherers

  Authors:Victor D. Thompson and John A. TurckFrom:American Antiquity (Vol. 74, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 200912,431 words Report 1440LAlong the southeastern Atlantic coast of Georgia, hunter-gatherer groups substantially altered the landscape for more than three millennia (ca. 4,200-1,000 B.P.) leaving behind a distinct material record in the form of...
• Select EARLY PALEOINDIAN WOMEN, CHILDREN, MOBILITY, AND FERTILITY

  14

  EARLY PALEOINDIAN WOMEN, CHILDREN, MOBILITY, AND FERTILITY

  Author:Todd A. SurovellFrom:American Antiquity (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20009,327 words Article If we take the archaeological record at face value, the colonization of unglaciated North America appears to have been very rapid. The highly consistent dating of Clovis archaeological sites (11,500-10,800 B.P.)...
• Select Dene hunting organization in fort good hope, northwest territories: "ways we help each other and share what we can".

  15

  Dene hunting organization in fort good hope, northwest territories: "ways we help each other and share what we can".

  Authors:Roger McMillan and Brenda ParleeFrom:Arctic (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 20139,666 words Report 1540L(Received 31 January 2012: accepted in revised form 14 February 2013) ABSTRACT. Social inquiry into hunting dynamics in northern indigenous communities in Canada has tended to focus on hunting individually or in small...
• Select Old World and new closer than ever

  16

  Old World and new closer than ever

  From:Science Scope (Vol. 36, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 2013297 words Brief article 1580LUsing genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations--including British, Scandinavians, French, and some Eastern Europeans--descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral...
• Select terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

  17

  terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

  Authors:Helen Lewis, Victor Paz, Myra Lara, Huw Barton, Philip Piper, Janine Ochoa, et al.From:Antiquity (Vol. 82, Issue 316) Peer-Reviewed

  June 20085,092 words Report 1360LExcavations at a cave site on the island of Palawan in the Philippines show occupation from c. 11000 BP. A fine assemblage of tools and faunal remains shows the reliance of hunter-foragers switching from deer to pig. In...
• Select Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement in northwest Europe

  18

  Hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement in northwest Europe

  Author:Randolph E. DonahueFrom:Antiquity (Vol. 78, Issue 299) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20041,781 words Bibliography RAYMOND R. NEWELL & TRINETTE S. CONSTANDSE-WESTERMANN. Late glacial--early postglacial hunting strategies and land-use practices in the Swabian Alb and surrounding regions (southwestern BRD) (Making Cultural Ecology...
• Select Perception of the environment: essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill

  19

  Perception of the environment: essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill

  From:Anthropologie et Societés (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Annual 20021,184 words Book review Tim INGOLD, The Perception of the Environment. Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. Londres et New York, Routledge, 2000, 465 p., illustrations, bibliogr., index. Tire Ingold est un auteur prolifique qui a fait...
• Select Frequency and developmental timing of linear enamel hypoplasia defects in Early Archaic Texan hunter-gatherers

  20

  Frequency and developmental timing of linear enamel hypoplasia defects in Early Archaic Texan hunter-gatherers

  Authors:J. Colette Berbesque and Kara C. HooverFrom:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 13, 20184,194 words Report 1430LAuthor(s): J. Colette Berbesque (1), Kara C. Hoover (2) Introduction The Buckeye Knoll site (41VT98) contains a prolonged record of short-term continuous site use over a period of 8,000years (8,500-500 BP) with...