Reindeer Hunters of the Ice Age in Europe
Reindeer Hunters of the Ice Age in Europe

Author: Laure Fontana

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-26

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 3031062590

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This book undertakes a thorough study of Reindeer in the Upper Pleniglacial and Tardiglacial societies in France. It addresses two main topics – the economy of animal resources within the societies and the exploitation of Reindeer organized within the annual cycle, in terms of space and time, between 30,000 and 14,000 cal BP in France. The author proposes an analysis and hypothesis regarding the economy of animal resources and the nomadic cycle of the last Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies, in order to identify a “Reindeer system.” The author discusses the relationship between Reindeer and human mobility and offers some conclusions regarding the annual cycles of nomadism. The volume scrutinizes the distinct eco systems in three regions and its effects on the movements of both human and animal. This book is of interest to zooarchaeologists and prehistorians.

The Earlier Stone Age Settlement of Scandinavia
The Earlier Stone Age Settlement of Scandinavia

Author: Grahame Clark

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1975-01-09

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780521204460

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During the Ice Age Scandinavia was submerged under thick ice sheets, and it was only in the subsequent warmer conditions, as the ice receded, that colonisation by plants, animals and men became possible. In this book Grahame Clark examines the expansion of human settlement into this area, with particular emphasis on the economic aspects of the societies under discussion. The account is carried down to the time (3500-3000 BC) when mixed farming, including cereal agriculture, was being introduced into the area. The book is fully illustrated and documented by many maps and tables. It provides a rounded picture of the economy of the first settlers and their descendants in an area whose archaeological past has been exceptionally fully investigated and documented. The colonisation of Scandinavia is considered in its European context, but the main emphasis lies on the process of change and the continuity of settlement in the territory itself.

Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory
Hunter-Gatherer Economy in Prehistory

Author: Geoff Bailey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1983-03-24

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780521237420

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A series of case studies which combine an awareness of recent developments in hunter-gatherer theory with a commitment to the analysis and interpretation of prehistoric material.

Humans at the End of the Ice Age
Humans at the End of the Ice Age

Author: Lawrence Guy Straus

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1461311454

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Humans at the End of the Ice Age chronicles and explores the significance of the variety of cultural responses to the global environmental changes at the last glacial-interglacial boundary. Contributions address the nature and consequences of the global climate changes accompanying the end of the Pleistocene epoch-detailing the nature, speed, and magnitude of the human adaptations that culminated in the development of food production in many parts of the world. The text is aided by vital maps, chronological tables, and charts.

Economic Archaeology
Economic Archaeology

Author: Alison Sheridan

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Includes papers presented at a conference entitled "Economic archaeology, towards an integrated approach," held at New Hall, Cambridge, in January 1979.

The Biological Bases of Economic Behaviour
The Biological Bases of Economic Behaviour

Author: David McFarland

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1137568062

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Human genetics has changed little over the past 20,000 years, but human economic behaviour has changed a lot. These changes are probably due to human cultural evolution. But studies of human hunter-gatherers, and of a variety of other animal species, show that their micro-economic behaviour is much the same. Whereas the standard economic analysis focuses on money, the biological approach brings time and energy into the analysis. Moreover, humans and other animals tested under laboratory conditions do not exhibit the complexity of the results of field studies. In other words, results obtained in the real world are not the same as those obtained in the laboratory. The Biological Bases of Economic Behaviour invites readers to approach micro-economics from a biological viewpoint, in a clear and introductory manner.

Early European Agriculture
Early European Agriculture

Author: British Academy. Major Research Project in the Early History of Agriculture

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982-10-28

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780521243599

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First printed in 1982, this is the third and final volume to be published as a result of the British Academy Major Research Project on the Early History of Agriculture, carried out in the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge under the direction of the late Eric Higgs. After his death in 1976, the Project was drawn to its conclusion by his associates, and this book is effectively a summary of the results of the Project. The first two volumes, Papers in Economic Prehistory and Palacoeconomy, argued that the development of agriculture was a much more gradual and widespread phenomenon than had been thought previously. This book now discusses the origins and early development of prehistoric agriculture within the framework of prehistoric subsistence economies in general. Early human economies are viewed in their adaptation to three crucial resource zones: the uplands, the lowlands and the littorals.

The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE
The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE

Author: Ian Tattersall

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-02

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 0195167120

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In this lively and readable introduction, renowned anthropologist Ian Tattersall thoroughly examines both fossil and archaeological records to trace human evolution from the earliest beginnings of our zoological family, Hominidae, through the appearance of Homo sapiens to the Agricultural Revolution.